I bought the FFE CD-ROMs quite early on, it was within the first few years of their release and the price at the time was around US$30 or thereabouts.
Those first issue CDs could be hit and miss, the ones I have do have decent quality copies of the T2k, Dark Con and 2300 material but some of the scans for the Challenge articles are incomplete.
Now that didn't bother me too much because I had physical copies of Challenge anyway but when it comes to overall usefulness of the scans, in some cases page numbers have been cut off.
This is a significant problem for the T2k 2.2 BYB scan and there's a few others like that from what I remember.
However I also recall that when FFE announced the intention to provide CDs of the game material on PDF, they mentioned that they did not actually own copies of all the material and asked for fans to either donate physical copies or send them scans of the copies.
So, not all of it is done at a professional level.
I can't speak for the quality of PDFs available on the CD-ROMs now or those for sale via DriveThruRPG because I've never needed to purchase any of them. So if anybody has purchased copies recently, please let us know what the quality is like!
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