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Thanks for the explanation. From that I'd have to say I'd probably be in the
Anti-Sony camp. Seems like an unneccesary feature to me.
Having said that, I'm erring towards the Sony MZ-R90 as my first MD buy,
although I don't yet have any confirmed British prices on it or the Sharp
831. Anyone give me any info on that, or reasons for and against the two
machines?
Cheers,
Nick.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Frakes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 5:25 PM
> To: MDList
> Subject: Re: MD: end search?
>
>
> "Wall, Nicholas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Also, what the hell is 'End Search'?
>
> Uh-oh...
>
> You don't know what you've done, Nicholas ;-)
>
> Seriously, though, whenever this topic comes up there is a huge debate
> over it. I'll withhold my opinion and try to explain it fairly.
>
> End search is an old feature that today only exists on Sony portable MD
> recorders. No other brands, nor the Sony home MD recorders, still have it.
>
> On all other MD recorders, when you press "record" the default behavior
> is for the recording to start from the end of the material that is
> already on the MD. Basically, they start a new track. If you want, you
> can manually tell the unit to start to record elsewhere, either between
> two tracks, at the beginning of the disk or smack in the middle of a
> pre-existing track. But by default, they start recording at the end.
>
> Sony portable recorders, on the other hand, start recording wherever you
> last left off playing or recording. So if you are recording some songs
> from a CD, and go back and listen to them or change the order, etc., the
> next time you press record during that session the Sony portable
> recorders will start to record from the last place you were at, whether
> that's at the beginning of the disk, the end, between tracks, or right in
> the middle of another song you just recorded, and it will overwrite
> whatever is there. To avoid this, you press the "end search" button,
> which basically tells the Sony portable to go to the *end* of all
> recorded material. Then you start recording from that point.
>
> I think the above was a pretty neutral, objective way of explaining it.
> Some people like it, some hate it. Read the above and decide for yourself
> whether it makes sense to you.
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