Personally I think the the reason why general public interpet the words MD same as MP3 because people seen the words like "compression", "near CD sound quality", "sampling at 16bit 44.1kHz". I even saw people in local newsgroup saying "for MD SP it pump out 292k/s but for MD LP2 it only pump out 132k/s so it should sound like MP3 at 128k". Well, how will you interpet this statement if have no idea about the underlying technologies? They simply ignore all the codec stuffs. Well, personally I also have no idea on what is precepture audio compression, I just read the paper Sony published years ago. But I'm lucky to be able to affort a MD portable years ago so I'd be able to convine my friends to go for MD. So I believe what Sony is trying to do is to "attract" people of no knowledge of the MD technology. > =================================================== > = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = > = be more selective when quoting text = > =================================================== > >or md portables that can transfer files rather than recording.... > >i belive...if one thing that lacks when it comes to MD is the >recording speed I mean if somehow someway the speed is >on the same level as them mp3 players...i am sure there are >tons of peoples who wouldn't even have a second thought >when it comes to MD....but even then i can live with slow >speed when i compare the costs :) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:57 AM >Subject: Re: MD: What is Sony thinking?!? > > >> >> this kinda has to do with this subject, but only a little. last evening >we >> had some nasty snowy weather here and our power was out for about 10 hrs. >> right after it went out i decided, since i was wide awake, to listen to >some >> music, i got out my trusty portable MD player and started to listen to it. >> just laying there i realized one super major bigtime realization(ok well >> maybe it isn't so bigtime) if you are listening to MD on a portable that >has >> been digitally copied, IMO you can not tell the difference between the >> original and the copy, at least on sub $150 headphones or any earbuds. >> However just the opposite can be stated about MP3's, i can be listening >with >> crappy $0.99 earphones and definately tell the difference between the >> original and the copy. Anyway i got that out of my system, i love my MD >> players and i've converted many people over from getting portable MP3 >> players to getting MD players, after they realize how much media costs for >> mp3 players and how bad they exactly sound they realize how big of a piece >> of crap they are. Hopefully some day there will be a good solid state >> solution that has no or extremely little cd loss with high compression, >but >> until that time comes i'm sticking with MD. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "chaulsr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:03 AM >> Subject: RE: MD: What is Sony thinking?!? >> >> >> > >> > >From what I observed Sony had changed the way it market MD in the past >2 >> years. >> > >> > When I first saw MD about 10 years ago, it advertised as Compact, >Digital >> Audio, Near CD sound quality, and most important, Recordable/Editable. As >> that time Sony is targetting the audio tape, so that make sense for all >that >> claims. And MD does a good job and take over most of the market from audio >> tape. >> > >> > But what happened in recent years is the new MP3 format which started >with >> a software only implementation and later got hardware implemented, plus >the >> advancement of memory technology which end up a price drop. So a MP3 >player >> make sense and most computer users can easily produce/collect their own >MP3 >> collections. >> > >> > So we now see Sony kindly offer us USB connection and MDLP which >extended >> the fantasy of MD. I guess that's toward the Computer users rather than >the >> audio market. >> > >> > And last, personally I prefer MD. It's easy to record, I just snap in a >CD >> and a MD then press several buttons. For MP3, I need to go through all >those >> softwares and have to spare my computer. And for the long run, MD should >be >> cheaper. >> > >> > Just my 2 cents. >> > >> > Raymond >> > >> > >> > >> > How can the folks at Sony be so thick-headed? >> > > >> > >The Fall 2000 issue of Sony Style magazine advises us to connect the >USB >> > >PCLink to our computers to "record mixes to your MD recorder with >almost >> no >> > >loss in sound quality." >> > > >> > >To further reinforce their contention that MD doesn't sound as good as >> it >> > >could, they go on to advertise their MDW-80D premium discs as being >> > >constructed in a way that "reduces vibrations during disc rotation to >> > >produce even better sound." >> > > >> > >While MP3 advocates crow about their "near CD sound quality," Sony >> seems to >> > >want to warn people that Minidisc doesn't really sound that good. >> > > >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> > >Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:59 PM >> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >Subject: md-l-mimedigest V2 #829 >> > > >> > > << Message: md-l-mimedigest V2 #829 (530 bytes) >> >> > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word >> > >"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > =================================================================== >> > s K O q l l c http://sinamail.sina.com.hk >> > Y U SinaTicker http://sinaticker.sina.com.hk >> > >> > >> > =================================================================== >> > s K O q l l c http://sinamail.sina.com.hk >> > Y U SinaTicker http://sinaticker.sina.com.hk >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word >> > "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word >> "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >----------------------------------------------------------------- >To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word >"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================================== s K O q l l c http://sinamail.sina.com.hk Y U SinaTicker http://sinaticker.sina.com.hk ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
