I can probably guess they ran into several issues with their desire to make their erasable/writable CDs compatible with normal disc players as one of the princi

I can probably guess they ran into several issues with their desire to make their erasable/writable CDs compatible with normal disc players as one of the principal reasons that they didn't make it to market. I'm more curious about the specifics, though. I found this: http://www.hughsnews.ca/cd-e-call-it-erasable-call-it-rewritable-but-will-it-fly-0046064 http://www.hughsnews.ca/cd-e-call-it-erasable-call-it-rewrit... Considering I purchased my first CD burner around 1995 for the hefty price of $1,000 (A Plextor external SCSI drive if memory serves), the $500 price tag for a burner that could also use erasable discs and be compatible with normal CD players was a lofty goal, particularly in 1988! At the time, my burner could only use CD-R discs at 2x speed that generally played back in everything, but were Write Once (with $30 discs, no less, don't underrun that buffer when burning!). By the time I got my first re-writable, I found that rewritable discs were far less reliable (a problem that plagued DVD burners from Day #1 as well with their +R -R +RW -RW nonsense -- you'd think that would have been something figured out before the release of the first player since CD burners were popular by then).