Sorry, I'm not gonna bring the HiRes war in here. The main different between MD and MP3 is that you need to re-record the on every single new blank MD, but for MP3 you just have to encode it once and you can start distribute it everywhere, that's how the nepster thing get started.. CD is easy to handle, maybe too easy. And MP3 is not a great deal, you can either encode it yourself (all modern PCs are capable of ripping the CD and encode the MP3), or you can download from the net (I'm not behind this priate acts, but I did see people doing it..). So I guess record labels and hardware manufacturers are looking into something less convinence, something that cannot be done inside the computer.. >> My theory is that hardware manufacturers got new Hi-Res formats, how are they going >to complete with another good old format exists 2 decades. The best solution is to >kill it.. A big move is to make every single PC in the world equipped with a >CDROM/DVDROM capable of ripping the track out, do it whatever the user like.. this >may post a big thread to the record labels, they may eventually move to the new >formats which are copy protected, hard to break in our average technologies.. which >may lead to boost to the sales of the new hardwares.. > >If the high res battle is anything like HDTV, you won't see a standard for 10 years! > Actually the problem with HDTV was not just competing designs. The FCC put certain >restrictions on them and it took 10 years settle that. > >LAS > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word >"unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================== s K O q l H c http://sinamail.sina.com.hk ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
