Talk about compression ratios and bitrates is entirely interesting, but I'm
talking about USE of the technology. The average person doesn't care that
MD has a better bitrate than an average MP3, they just want something they
can listen to music with when they go jogging or something.
By "use" of it I mean more towards the end-user's preference of what works
for him/her. In my opinion, besides the method used to get the music onto
the media, there's no real difference between MD units and MP3 units. The
audio quality sounds exactly the same to me when I'm rollerblading with the
wind whistling in my ears. I like the flexibility MD affords me. Not
saying MP3 players are inflexible, they just don't work for what I like them
to do, have the right features I need, the right accessories (I have a sony
MZ-R900), etc.
---
Mike Lastucka, B. Tech
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>From: "Michael Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: MD: MD inferior to MP3: it's not computer-literate
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:18:51 -0700
>
>
> >Comparing MD to MP3 /is/ indeed an unfair comparison. Different
>technologies, different uses.
>
>But what does "MD" mean? What does "MP3" mean? People have too fixed of a
>cloud of mental associations with each. Is MD 5:1? Not necessarily. Is
>MD
>ATRAC? Not necessarily. Is MD lossy? Not necessarily. Is MP3
>non-recordable in portables? Not necessarily. Is MP3 128 Kbps? Not
>necessarily. Does Sony gear store ATRAC on MD? Not necessarily (the Sony
>Bic
>lighter pseudo-MP3 player stores ATRAC on some RAM.)
>
>What you we mean by "MD technology and its uses" or "MP3 technology and its
>uses"? Neither is a firmly fixed, static, stationary set of features and
>user-interface. It is one thing to debate *today's standard* MD gear vs.
>*today's standard* MP3 gear, but it's much more interesting to discuss the
>near-future *potential* of recombining selected aspects of the MD media,
>compression, and UI with selected aspects of the MP3-related technologies.
>
>If you debate MD and MP3 but only assume *today's typical* packaging, most
>of
>your points will be irrelevant for the actual products that we see in a
>year,
>which will always violate several of your unexamined assumptions about what
>"MD" means or what "MP3" means.
>
>-- Michael Hoffman
>http://www.amptone.com/audio
>
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