Cebit 2002 - Yamaha

Yamaha at CeBIT 2002, presented for the first time, the "printing/drawing" technology. As Yamaha says, it has developed an innovative laser scanning technology for CD-R/RWs. Since developing both laser output and rotation control in such a way that the CD-RW recorder is capable of burning images onto the CD-R as well as content in the form of data. This enables users to write a practical “memo“ such as a date, index, logo or picture on the unused area of the disk.

Yamaha for the presentation had three template demos, written by special DOS software. When a drive ships with that technology , Nero could be used to control the size, empty space of the CD that is going to be printed with. So far Yamaha has only succeeded 16 levels of grey and hopefully this will be increased (up to 64?) at the final product:

Below you can find the world's first CDRInfo "printed" test disc, with the logo, the URL and the CeBIT who upon it. Isn't that impressive? (Click to get high-resolution picture)

Below is another example of CDRInfo "printed" CDs. As you may seen, there are already burned data and at the empty space we can "print" logos, text etc...For testing Yamaha randomly chosen www.cdrinfo.com ;-)

Below is another Yamaha product kind different. The below picture explain more or less the product information. Isn't not decided yet if this product will hit the market or not, but Yamaha does see a potential market opening to this category in which big competitors like Primera Technologies does exist.

Below is the actual machine. From the glass window, you could see the robotic arm moving up and down, inserting and storing backup CDs from the software commands.

In addition products like Yamaha CRW3200E, Yamaha CRW70 and the IDE to SCSI converter was also present:

Lastly, Yamaha gave several AudioMASTER shows with the "Hear The Difference" slogan. Does it sound familiar?