Good points. It's important to look at the true overall way such products and
technologies are used.
I've had a lot of horrible problems with CD burners, the kind that make you
doubt computer technology as a whole. MD has been comparatively flawless:
slow, but rock-solid reliable. And its degradation is reliable: MD will
always degrade the sound extremely slightly, while MP3 so far has been very
unreliable, as normally used in practice. I could list problems I've had with
MP3 and MD, and MP3 has reliability problems, in my experience.
MD, like Macintosh, is a more determinate system with fewer variables.
Windows is a crazy platform because God only knows what combination of
drivers, software, and hardware any user might have. PCs have many more ways
for things to go wrong. And ripping/coding/burning/trading MP3 CDRs has a lot
that can go wrong compared to MD trades.
>the general public has not embraced the concept of combining the PC with
>the home "entertainment center".
>I'm not sure why people would want to watch a movie an a 19" computer monitor
>(which is really only a 17" TV) when they have a 36" Sony Vega
>sitting 15 feet
>away?? And several thousand dollars of hi fi equipment with a dedicated DVD
>player to top it off.
>They could probably even make an MD ROM drive with a special PCI card which
>would act as the CPU and DSP for the drive. But that's not what people want.
>As far as titling goes, which would be easier if the MD was
>connected to a PC,
>except for die hard MDers, it doesn't seem like most people really care about
>titling. I don't see any huge popularity for CDs that have the
>titles on them.
>
>LAS
-- Michael Hoffman
http://www.amptone.com/audio
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