>Dirty Dingus Magee wrote:
>> I know MD Data technology is incompatible with audio MD units but
>> I believe that if Sony wants to, they could develop a professional type
>> unit that could compete with existing but antiquated technology thereby
>> placing themselves in a favorable market position and benefiting consumers.
>
>
>It's my impression that ATRAC as used in MD is a lossy compression
>system. I doubt many pros would want to start out with a lossy system.
>They might not mind publishing in such a format, but they would like to
>retain as much info as possible until committed to final form.
>
>ted
MD Audio uses ATRAC MD Data does not have to use it. It can be used, but if
a pro would like to keep the complete digital integrity of the original
sample they certainly could using MD Data. As to Dingus, Sony is NOT
planning on supporting MD-DATA2 as an audio format, that doesn't preclude
someone from creating a pro deck that can support the new format and use it
as data, it just means that you shouldn't expect to see any consumer
products that support a 650MB audio MD. The differences between the Audio
MD and the Data MD as far as the drive reading it is concered is just one
of the holes on the disc case, but it is upto Sony whether they will ever
allow a higher audio disc.
RJ K
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