CD-Rom/DVD carousel? (100-300 disc)??

[tankman1989]

I don't know if any of you were/are into home A/V equipment but about 6-9 years ago there was an introduction to the market of large capacity CD players that were built in a vertical carousel fashion. These pieces of equipment were actually fairly inexpensive relative to their storage capacity. I have not seen these on the market recently and wonder if production has stopped on them or not.

What I am actually interested in is why has there never been a CD-ROM/DVD carousel made? It would be awesome if one could be made that burnt media as well.

I think I smell a project here. I envision finding an old working model and seeing if it can be upgraded somehow with new DVD+-R/RW optics and make a burner that can burn 100-300 discs in a row.

While this may not be possible without some MAJOR reprogramming and some significant hardware upgrades, I wouldn't see why it wouldn't be possible. This would be an AWESOME project to undertake.

Imagine if you had to make 300 DVD's and time wasn't a major factor. You could load it up, press record and come back in 20 hours and you would have your 300 DVD's (assuming each was burnt in 3m45sec @ 24x Plextor). That would be amazing!

I'm guessing that not only the optics would have to be upgraded but also the motor. If one could canabalize the carousel for the physical attributes, strip apart an internal Sata (or IDE) drive and get it to mount, this would be ery interesting!

What say ye?

 

[tankman1989]

I think I have a fairly simple solution figured out and maybe some of you could review my logic on this.

-Acquire a high capacity carousel changer.
-Remove standard optics and motor
-Replace OEM parts with DVD burner(basically place everything from the DVD burner into the carousel except the tray, casing and bezel)
-Use the "next disc" button to skip the carousel to the next disc once the current is done burning (this might be able to be incorporated with the track skip button on the DVD burner if it has one).

So all that would need to be done is mount the new laser and motor (I don't know how difficult the laser part would be, it would have to be accurate but I think they self adjust a bit) and figure out a way for the software to trigger the "next disc" button once the software is finished recording. If the software is anything like ImgBurn then it refreshes what is in the "tray" every few seconds (I believe) and it would detect a new disc once it was loaded.

Am I making this out to be much more simple than it is?

 

[jay c]

Are you talking about something different than a disk duplicator? The Rimage 2000i holds 100 DVDs and has dual burners.