Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2003 9:18 am
Yamaha and/or Ian,
I have a final request to Yamaha to consider.
Even though Yamaha has exited the CDRW business, there are still many users who have bought or will buy more Yamaha burners (still in the retail chain).
In fact, I have just ordered two more F1 drives for myself today.
However, I would find even more use of these drives, if Yamaha would release some information about how to implement the AMQ (AudioMaster) burning features in various burning programs.
I'm especially thinking of Andre Wiethoff (programmer of EAC) and some other authors of useful CDRW utilities.
Also, if Yamaha has implemented special commands in their chipset (for example C1/C2 error reporting) that are not publicly known, I'm sure MANY software makers would be eager to implement these in their software, if they were available.
Is this information easily availble, could you please point me to it? If it is not, can you please consider making this kind of information available (even under NDA) to software makers?
I know it may not be in the best business interest of Yamaha Corp, as it probably wants the whole channel to be clear from Yamaha drives as soon as possible (along with all outstanding warranties).
While this is understandable from the point of view of saving on support and managing write-off costs, I think Yamaha could still consider releasing this information and extending the useful lifespan of their products to their former (and current!) loyal customers.
At least to me, this would be a sign of a company that I can trust with my purchases in the future as I have been able to do in the past.
Best regards,
Halcyon
(real name available on request)
I have a final request to Yamaha to consider.
Even though Yamaha has exited the CDRW business, there are still many users who have bought or will buy more Yamaha burners (still in the retail chain).
In fact, I have just ordered two more F1 drives for myself today.
However, I would find even more use of these drives, if Yamaha would release some information about how to implement the AMQ (AudioMaster) burning features in various burning programs.
I'm especially thinking of Andre Wiethoff (programmer of EAC) and some other authors of useful CDRW utilities.
Also, if Yamaha has implemented special commands in their chipset (for example C1/C2 error reporting) that are not publicly known, I'm sure MANY software makers would be eager to implement these in their software, if they were available.
Is this information easily availble, could you please point me to it? If it is not, can you please consider making this kind of information available (even under NDA) to software makers?
I know it may not be in the best business interest of Yamaha Corp, as it probably wants the whole channel to be clear from Yamaha drives as soon as possible (along with all outstanding warranties).
While this is understandable from the point of view of saving on support and managing write-off costs, I think Yamaha could still consider releasing this information and extending the useful lifespan of their products to their former (and current!) loyal customers.
At least to me, this would be a sign of a company that I can trust with my purchases in the future as I have been able to do in the past.
Best regards,
Halcyon
(real name available on request)