Re: MD: Sony MD discam (OT)
At 09:59 AM 11/30/99 +0100, RS wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Funnily enough, just as audio MDs are sawn-off CD-RWs, MD-Data2 discs are >> sawn of DVD-RWs. > >Ahh > >Than I must have been wrong I always thoughed MD used MO technology and >that CD-RW used some sort of other technology that doesn't require a >magnetic field during writing. Smart ass... Tosser.. Look Ralph, it was a throw away line, but if you insist, CD-RW is, from what I have read, a magneto-optical format from the Orange Book (CD) standard: Orange Book Standard - Announced in 1990 to address the new recordable optical media and provide specifications for incremental writes. - Divided into 2 parts, Compact Disc-Magneto Optical (CD-MO) and - Compact Disc-Write Once (CD-WO) - Covers Multi-session discs, such as the Kodak Photo CD. Now, because I don't use rewritable CD media, and have no practical experience with CD-RW, I have always assumed that CD-MO was CD-RW. Please tell me if I am wrong, but I do ask that you adopt a much less condescending and patronising tone in future. All the documentation I have read on MiniDisc media seems to indicate that it is heavily based on the CD standards. After all, why reinvent the wheel. Hence my statement that MD1 is sawn-off (i.e. a smaller) CD-RW (meaning CD-MO from Orange Book). >Seriously, you can't compare MDs with CD-RWs since the underlying technology >is completly different. If you say so, Ralph. I certainly agree there is more than one way to implement a rewritable CD. But I had always assumed CD-RW was magneto-optical. >MD-Data2 is a 'high-density' MD-Data disc. It's an >evolution. DVD is however a evolution of CD (make CD double-sided, double >layered and increase the density). Oh, and MDData2 just happened along coincidentally at the same time as we figured out how to pack more onto an optical disc. To say the two are not related is farce. I'd be willing to bet that the MD2 specs bear striking resemblance to DVD specs, just as the MD1 specs bear striking resemblance to Orange Book (CD) specs. >I suppose that DVD-RAM is based on the same principles as CD-RW. No, clearly not. Every single format is completely different and constructed in a vacuum from scratch. I bow to your superior intellect, Mr Smeets. -- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/ End. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #439 - Automatic Reply
Hi! Hmm, is it just me or is the idea of receiving this every day until January, 2nd a little disturbing? :-)) Mark Holmes (or rather his email program) wrote: > I'm on leave until 2 Jan. Please contact Ade Morris (AMORR x3553) > for PAFS problems or Jeffrey Bowman/Jason Hiscocks (JBOWM x4394, > JHISC x4320) for CIMS. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Minidisc at Sears Reback
I just got a Sears Department store xmass flyer in the mail. Low and behold, they have a SOny R37 shown for $299.99 and Sony? MXDD3 for $399.99. They say the MXDD3 is "All-in-one CD-to-mini disc (sic) recorder is feature packed." -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: New to MD
Well, I finally took the plunge. I'm awaiting the arrival of my Sharp Portable MiniDisc Player MDS301 and I have a few questions to ask while I'm waiting. My computer is a laptop with 2 PC card slots (one of which is being used for my modem.) Is there a PC card I can buy that will allow me to record my MP3 files onto minidisc? If so, where would I get one? Looking forward to taking part in this list! db - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: zoltrix Nightingale sound card with optical in/out
Cheers, PrinceGaz -- "if it harms none, do what you will" Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 From: "J. Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks Rick, I missed the reveiw when it came out, but the card was > selling here in a local clone dealer for about $15 to $18 US as I > recall. I shoulda got that instead of the SB live value. The sb live > value is a great card, mind you, but it loads about 6 megs into memory > each time you boot the computer. so my puny 32 meg system slowed down > to a crawl as it paged everything to the hard drive that now had only > 270 megs left available on it. I ended up having to increase the memory > to 64 megs and replacing the 1.8 gig HD with a 6.4 gig. Please guys, dont flame me for another PC h/ware posting! I got a SB Live Player 1024 and was wondering what was eating 2-3MB of RAM. I only have 32MB as well and it's made an awful difference. I was thinking the Creative S3 Savage4 card was the culprit but from this it is almost certainly the soundcard. Does ne1 know a way to stop the SB Live Player 1024 from grabbing RAM as current memory prices rule out my getting that 128MB PC100 DIMM :-( Apart from that though, it's a wonderful card-- the analog line-out sounds damned good, the SB16 emulation works fine with everything I've tested it with to date, though it did stop me overclocking the PCI bus speed from 33 to 37MHz which really disappointed me. Esp as the videocard was still happy at 44MHz as far as I could tell! Again I apologise for off-topic PC stuff postings, pls just delete this if you are annoyed. Please. Cheers, PrinceGaz -> I promise not to *start* new PC hardware threads. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Overclocking - definitely OT
From: "Jeff DeMaagd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- Magic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: PrinceGaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Just to re-assure the guy who wondered a couple of > nights ago if I was still alive, yep I am, and so is > my PC (which given my recent overclocking trials is > perhaps surprising). The AMD K6-3/400 chip in my > machine is running happily at 450 but I did try > earlier<< > > OOOH, a 13% speed increase. Can you even notice it > without timing something? I run MAME [Multi Arcade Machine Emulator] and every ounce of CPU power counts, and can be seen in the emulated game speed display. Even a 10% difference could be useful. The videocard counts too of course, indeed it's as important as the CPU I reckon. > > My P3 450MHz is running quite happily at 540MHz with > a bus speed of 40MHz.< > > Typo? Still, it is only a 20% speed increase. > > > Don't kid yourself about a K6-3 being faster than a > P3, it isn't.< > > Um, Duh. But then, don't kid yourself into thinking > Intel had the fastest CPU on the market. It isn't > even near the top five, neither is AMD. I've had a > _real_ 500MHz CPU running before Intel figured out how > to clock at 350 safely. > > Now can we get on topic before we have a public > flogging? There are other lists to discuss your > little PCs. Quite right, whoever plagues this list by starting these threads ought to be punished. I do wonder wot you ran on your old 500MHz chip- was it Intel compatible or some dubious Mac or worse type thing? Cheers, PrinceGaz -> my website has 300 MAME romsets supporting over 400 games, if you like retro gaming be sure to check it out! Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Quality of Digital Out on CDROM
I thought the question was digital out on audio playback, not 'ripping' in the sense that others were saying. As others have said, for digital tech, if you don't have problems with what you have, you don't need to upgrade. If your CD player can't get around some scratches that it should or does not have digital out, upgrade it. I have no problem with people buying Plextors, I would buy one if I needed a new CD player/burner/ripper/whatever, if you are going to spend money to get an improvement, you might as well go as much improvement as you can afford. --- "S derman,_Lars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone wrote: >> Ripped data does not go down the digigal audio link, and audio playback is so "slow" that the disc would need to be seriously damaged for error correction to begin to fail. > Fifth: Remember that Audio CDs have one less level of error correction than data CDs. Thats one reason why we need the Plextors when ripping. :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: scms
Simon Mackay wrote, | The MDS-W1 double-MD deck and some CD-MD combo decks have an analogue | fallback path where the signal is recorded as an analogue signal through | this path or as a digital-direct signal. Right. That of the W1 is buggy, though: it looks at only the is-a-copy bit and not at the copyright bit, so given SCMS-unlimited material, it makes an analog transfer. It offers other ways to copy from one disc to another that do follow the full SCMS specification, though, so it's easily worked around. | Also the SCMS firmware may support an extra copy generation when the digital | source is a digital broadcast receiver such as a digital satellite tuner or | DAB tuner. This exception is well documented with Sony digital-recording | decks in their SCMS explanation page; and with Philips DCC decks (because of | the DSR system that was being promoted in Europe at the time of the DCC). Some people with digital receivers, notably Ralf Kuchenhart, tried to look into that and to figure out the difference between tuners that allow an extra generation and those that do not (Sony's diagram in MD recorder manuals that explains SCMS acknowledges that the second-generation copy is not possible with some tuners), and no one came up with the answer. There is no SCMS value that means `antepenultimate'; the penultimate MD recordings made from satellite broadcasts have something to do with the source medium code or with the sampling rate conversion. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
> > can't do it 'cause the porty doesn't have a digital out. > >Yes it does--the line out doubles as an optical-out. No it doesn't, http://www.minidisc.org/mz-r30.html >I thought I had heard talk of an aftermarket product you could jack into a >port on the card that had the necessary ins/outs? There are third party converters, but you can easily build one yourself, or let someone with some electronics knowledge build it, just look for some schematics on http://www.minidisc.org Bye, Remko van der Vossen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Black Angel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 48056779 EDA and owner of [EMAIL PROTECTED] fan of Jewel, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Mac Gyver, BtVS, Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight Pretty; "There is a pretty girl on the Face of this magazine And all I can see are my dirty hands turning the page" Jewel - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
From: Thomas, Ferris > > can't do it 'cause the porty doesn't have a digital out. > > Yes it does--the line out doubles as an optical-out. Just out of curiosity, which model is this? I've never heard of a portable with an optical out besides that very first Sony... Rick. -+--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alienshore.com/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: JVC XM-R70
I'm considering purchasing this. It will be my first portable recorder. Does anyone know if you can manually set recording levels or if the only option for recording is automatic gain control? Thanks! -matt -- matthew c. mead [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goof.com/~mmead/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Koss in the UK /702 headphone amp
Hello Does anyone know a Koss dealer in Britain? I want to get some of their earphones to use with my 702. Also, can anyone recommend a good headphone amp to use with the 702? Cheers, Alan - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
I'm sorry, but I had one and the line out doubles as an OPTICAL IN, not an optical out. Off hand, I don't know of any current porty that has an optical out. Thomas, Ferris wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: J. Coon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 4:47 PM > > Subject: Re: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer > > > > > > can't do it 'cause the porty doesn't have a digital out. > > Yes it does--the line out doubles as an optical-out. > > I thought I had heard talk of an aftermarket product you could jack into a > port on the card that had the necessary ins/outs? > > F.S. Thomas > programmer > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word > "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: zoltrix Nightingale sound card with optical in/out
Thanks Rick, I missed the reveiw when it came out, but the card was selling here in a local clone dealer for about $15 to $18 US as I recall. I shoulda got that instead of the SB live value. The sb live value is a great card, mind you, but it loads about 6 megs into memory each time you boot the computer. so my puny 32 meg system slowed down to a crawl as it paged everything to the hard drive that now had only 270 megs left available on it. I ended up having to increase the memory to 64 megs and replacing the 1.8 gig HD with a 6.4 gig. Maybe if I had seen this Zoltrix, I wouldn't have had to mess with all that. Eric Woudenberg wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > "J. Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any one familiar with the Zoltrix Nightingale Optical PCI sound > > card? [...] They were selling them for a pretty low price at a > > local computer store. Less than $30 for the sound card. I > > don'tknow if they had the optical. > > Calum Tsang posted a review of it last week in: > http://www.minidisc.org/zoltrix.html > > Rick > > - > To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word > "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jim Coon Not just another pretty mandolin picker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways/ - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer
> -Original Message- > From: J. Coon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 4:47 PM > Subject: Re: MD: MD to SB(value) transfer > > > can't do it 'cause the porty doesn't have a digital out. Yes it does--the line out doubles as an optical-out. I thought I had heard talk of an aftermarket product you could jack into a port on the card that had the necessary ins/outs? F.S. Thomas programmer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sony MD discam (OT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Funnily enough, just as audio MDs are sawn-off CD-RWs, MD-Data2 discs are > sawn of DVD-RWs. Ahh Than I must have been wrong I always thoughed MD used MO technology and that CD-RW used some sort of other technology that doesn't require a magnetic field during writing. Seriously, you can't compare MDs with CD-RWs since the underlying technology is completly different. MD-Data2 is a 'high-density' MD-Data disc. It's an evolution. DVD is however a evolution of CD (make CD double-sided, double layered and increase the density). I suppose that DVD-RAM is based on the same principles as CD-RW. Cheers, Ralph -> .. -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
