Shawn Lin wrote:
"I like the idea of a portable MD recorder with a USB port. When
plugged into a Mac or PC, all you have to do is drag & drop your MP3
files to an MD icon. A few seconds later, the process is complete, the
MP3's are all in the MD. Maybe the MD recorder *should* have a built-in
MP3 decoder. Right click on the MD icon, and under a "Properties..."
menu, there is a checkbox "Audio MD Compatibility Mode". If the checkbox
is unchecked, the MP3's are copied directly to MD as MP3's with around
140-minutes of stereo MP3 audio capacity, only playable on that
particular recorder. If the checkbox is checked, the MP3's are
processed by a high-speed codec that converts the MP3 format to ATRAC
and then can save 74-minutes of stereo audio playable on ANY MD player."
I think this is exactly where the MD format needs to go if it wants to
survive the MP3 onslaught. I mentioned something like this about two
months ago and didn't get much response. Perhaps I stated things
poorly. John Deutsch also stated that "(MD needs to be) COMPLIMENTARY
technology to MP3." IMHO, this is the only way MD will stick around.
Heck it might even gain wide-spread acceptance! MP3 players with the 40
MB Iomega Clik! Disks could work since the cost/MB is much lower than
flash memory. But at US $0.25/MB for the Clik! Disks versus the roughly
US $0.02/MB cost of MD, the MD seems to be the perfect storage medium
with a whopping 140MB of data capacity! Not to mention that MD would be
a dual function format (ATRAC & MP3) that can record. Just my 2 cents
worth.
Does anyone know if there might be someone with influential power at
Sony that keeps tabs on this mailing list? This is the way to find out
what the consumer really wants.
Craig Bernard
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