Hello all. September issue of Sound&Vision (which is Stereo Review gone to
hell) has some interesting items. First, a letter from a reader refers to
Ken Pohlmann's review of the Philips CDR560 CD recorder (June issue). Ken
stated that CD's provide much better sound than MD. He then went on to refer
to a test in the March 1997 issue and said cassettes with Dolby S "sounded
much better" than MD. Now isn't this just like this crappy magazine. The
last look they did at MD was 2 1/2 years ago!! ATRAC has improved greatly
since then. Second...they tell about a company called C-Dilla being recently
acquired by Macrovision. This new technology will "prevent a computer's
CD-ROM from playing music CDs, making it impossible to copy them with a CD-R
drive or post them on the internet." "The system is said to also prohibit
copies from being made in consumer CD recorders- and even to prevent a
digital signal from being passed through a player's digital outputs." Does
this mean no more copying a song from a CD to MD? "The system works by
adding false codes to a music CD so that it looks like a CD-ROM to a
computer. The codes are ignored by CD players, but the discs appear corrupt
and unreadable on CD-ROM drives." "So although the recording industry's SDMI
has reached the reluctant conclusion that consumers should be allowed to
copy digital content onto storage media, your right to do so isn't yet fully
secure." Glenn
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