I do think portable MD players could benefit from an enhanced resume effect
(as mentioned in another unnamed thread), even if it is a (spit) tape like
behaviour. I have an obsessive compulsive disorder where I must finish
playing one disc right the way through before playing it again. But often,
the battery runs out, or I've arrived home, or whatever. Point is, I often
want to do different things with my portable deck after this, like record a
CD for playing tomorrow, or take down a seminar, or something. So I eject
the disc halfway through. To resume playback later, I have to manually find
the point where I left off- which, believe it or not, is something I do.
Someone suggested that a resume effect would have to write to the disc. It
would not. MD players have static memory, and MDs have unique identifiers.
In a similar way to the Last Memory function of DVD players, it could give
users the option of remembering where a disc was last stopped. Though DVD
players require manual engaging of this feature (supposedly due to limited
memory, and the prospect of doing this for multiple discs), I don't see why
it couldn't be automatic. I mean, if this disc already had a resume
position, it could be updated on subsequent eject. You would only need to
enforce a manual update if this was a 'new' disc and entering it into
memory would mean purging the 'oldest' record.
Funny thing is, my DVD player doesn't seem to have Last Memory for CDs. D'oh!
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Archer
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