Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

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From: "Neil MacLennan" <neilreality [dot] co [dot] uk>

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To: flashershocker [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

>Date: Tue, Apr 20, 1999, 9:59 am

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> I've recently seen a new (well, 'new' to me anyway) CD product. Its a CD

> that's been cut/shaped down to the size of a business card and has four

> little dimples that help it sit in the "CD single" little tray of your

> standard CD player.

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> It fits about 16Mb of data and the one I was given had a company profile as

> a cross-platform autostarting CD Flash movie -- nothing that wouldn't have

> fitted on a floppy disk, but they took advantage of the extra disk space to

> add beefier sounds and background music.

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> I thought it was really cool and it looks just like a regular business card

> except for rounded corners (and a silver back!) When I first saw it someone

> had to tell me that I could actually play it! I must confess I was a bit

> reluctant to place a rectangle in my new blue G3 DVD drive -- but the

> dimples did their job.

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> They need to be specially manufactured, so they're not very cheap and they

> suffer from the dreaded "minimum order quantity". Great for forward-looking

> companies -- not so great for a CV, which was after all the original thread.

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> Cool nonetheless.

>

> Neil MacLennan

> Reality Creative Design

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> PS and for those people you give it to without "modern technology", it has

> the conventional contact/business details printed on the face!

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> PPS I realise this may sound a bit far-fetched to some of you -- note the

> date -- it's not April 1 -- this is true!

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