MD: Software for MDS-PC2

2001-01-22 Thread Dodge


Hi Guys...

I'm looking for a link to the software for a Sony MDS-PC2...
I need it because the CD that was supplied with my MDS-PC2 is scratched, 
and i can't read it anymore...

Any help will be much appreciated...

Greetz,
D

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MD: atrac 3 software encoder

2001-01-22 Thread Matt Wall


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all right there is the at3conv that does 1 song at a time, there is =
sony's musicbox mg, and there is a plugin for your windows media player =
for atrac3 files.  anyone know of something other than sony's musicbox =
mg that will encode to atrac 3 files as a plugin, something similar to =
using it in audiograbber.  so i can basically use cddb and all the other =
groovy stuff to rip directly from my cd's.  any help is appreciated.

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No Subject

2001-01-22 Thread Greg Lincoln


Hello everybody.
have had Minidiscs now for 3 years and have just obtained my first car
player. It is a SONY MDX-C8000. Could you tell me where I can Download a
copy of the manual?

Much Appreciated, Kia Ora from New Zealand!

Greg Lincoln.

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Re: MD: OT: Component Video Cables

2001-01-22 Thread Francisco J. Huerta


Personally, I think buying anything that's more expensive than Radio Shack
Gold Interconnects is a waste of money... but that's just me. Many people
will tell you that buying $500 USD interconnects will make your system
"shine, with added detail, sparkle, soundstage, fidelity, bass, treble,
whatever". I say they should check inside their equipment, and see the kind
of cable inside. Whatever benefits expensive cable might bring will be
zapped by everything else.

Just my opinion

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Re: MD: OT: Component Video Cables

2001-01-22 Thread Dave Hooper


 Personally, I think buying anything that's more expensive than Radio Shack
 Gold Interconnects is a waste of money... but that's just me. Many people
 will tell you that buying $500 USD interconnects will make your system
 "shine, with added detail, sparkle, soundstage, fidelity, bass, treble,
 whatever". I say they should check inside their equipment, and see the
kind
 of cable inside. Whatever benefits expensive cable might bring will be
 zapped by everything else.
 Just my opinion

Not just YOUR opinion though, mine too...
It's true that, when you pay 300 (so that's like $301 at the moment  :)
for a decent CD player, the last thing you want to use is the cruddy
interconnects that it comes with
Black zipwire, red and white plastic phonos at the ends...
But what is it that's actually wrong with them?

1.  Cross talk from poor RF insulation and isolation (cheap zipwire!)
2.  Poor or variable conductivity across phono plugs (aluminium conductors
which can oxidise in air)
3.  RF noise on cable, again caused by poor RF insulation
4.  Variable characteristics - the resistance of the 'red' cable can be
higher than the 'white' cable, for example (cheap zipwire, again - and
partly to do with the fact that usually they are using impure copper
conductors that are not oxygen-free, resulting in variable amounts of copper
oxides and other impurities in the signal path)

I did some shopping at Maplin (www.maplin.co.uk) and bought some cable and
some connectors and soldered myself some better interconnects.
Featuring Van Damme LC-OFC cable.  That's oxygen-free copper to you and me
to guarantee quoted resistance and capacitance per metre.  Meaning a
45-centimeter length of cable will have the same properties as another
45-centimeter length of cable.  And pretty meaty three-part insulation, one
part of which is conductive to improve RF screening around the screen
conductor in the cable.  And gold-plated phono connectors which require the
minimum of soldering (just one solder point- for the signal wire.  The
screen wire is clamped in part of the connector so is a solder-free
connection).
Price, 5 a meter including connectors.  Stereo pair for 10 a meter.

( $10.01 )

Sound quality - Top notch.  No cross talk (not with that amount of
insulation!), no crackling when jiggling the cables (ok, so you wouldn't
tend to waggle the cables around too much in a normal setup, but I'm just
saying, the zipwire interconnects crackle when rattled).  Remarkable
soundstage clarity, with a richer, fuller bass and sweet yet detailed
top-end   :)

Just my 2 pence  (2.07 cents)
Dx

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Re: MD: OT: Component Video Cables

2001-01-22 Thread J. Coon


I agree with you Larry.

las wrote:
 
 Wouldn't 75 ohm cable work?  By them in the length you want and then convert
 them from "F" connectors to RCA with an adapter that you can purchase at
 Radio Shack.  If you carrying a video signal it seems to me that 75 ohm
 cable should be just what you want.
 
 Also I would think that any decent grade cable designed specifically for
 video signals that has RCA plugs on each end would work perfectly.
 
 Larry
 
 Rodney Peterson wrote:
 
  Can anybody point me to a place on the web where I can buy component
  video cables?
 
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Re: MD: OT: Component Video Cables

2001-01-22 Thread Rodney Peterson


I ordered some component cables for $80 including second day UPS
shipping. from A2Z cables, a company previous search engines hadn't
turned up until I tired Lycos. (WebTV has quite possibly the worst
search engine on the internet). They sounded fine and were in fact the
upgrade model but I don't know the brand name-I figured the website was
professional enough to take a chance with and they have a huge selection
of cables and interconnects, so I felt confident in ordering from them.
My time is too valuable to bother with make it yourself cable.

If anyone in the Los Angeles area is interested in helping me configure
my computet/audio/video system, please E-Mail me. You would probably be
very interested in the potential of my system.

System includes:

Panasonic PT56WXF95 HDTV (which can display 720p)
Dell Latitude Notebook with Windows 2000 (which can be configured to run
DVD at upconverted 720p with the use of the Key Digital VGA to component
adapter, which I ordered last week.

In addition, I have an HDTV decoder, HDTV D-VHS VCR's, Sony 7000 DVD/CD
Player, MiniDisc decks, wireless keyboard/mouse/receiver combo from
Logitech (successfully installed today) and lots and lots of other stuff
I could use help with from time to time.

Thanks!

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Re: MD: OT: Component Video Cables

2001-01-22 Thread las


Rodney Peterson wrote:

 My time is too valuable to bother with make it yourself cable.

My suggestion doesn't involve "make it yourself cable".  You purchase Radio
Shack's best 75 ohm cables with gold "F" connectors,  You buy 2 F to RCA
adapters (I'm not sure if they are available gold plated) and you have what
I feel is a good set of component video interconnects.

Remember if you are using component video, you are still using analog
signals.

If I am not mistaken, component video is essentially the same as RGB.  The
black and white signal is piggy packed on one of the 3 colors.

Unless you have HDTV DVD's (I don't think that they are available yet),
although you can have a digital audio signal, DVD is still analog video and
limited to 500 lines of resolution or so.

Your HDTV is capable of displaying true digital video.  But DVD's can not
give you the resolution of HDTV.  The best an HDTV will do for DVD's is give
you the most you can get out of them.  Also you can get true wide screen
without having to letter box.

But since there is maybe one TV show at this time that broadcasts in HDTV,
...sorry, I've gotten way of the topic and the topic itself has nothing
to do with mini discs anyway.  But we are kind of reaching a brick wall with
Mini Discs outside of Japan.







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Re: MD: OT: DVD Resolution

2001-01-22 Thread Rodney Peterson


Although DVD is output at 480i, and progressive scan DVD is 480p, a
number of people are viewing them at upconverted 720p. While not true
HDTV, it is a significant improvement over 480p from what I've read.
Those people are using the same equipment I will be using: an HDTV with
720p display capability and a DVD-ROM from a computer output to the Key
Digital VGA to component video adapter.

This is what is available currently in the U.S. on HDTV:

Network

CBS-Almost all primetime programming, sports special events (The Super
Bowl will be in HD)

NBC-Tonight Show only

ABC-NYPD Blue and ocassional theatrical movies

FOX-No true HDTV programming, but about 50% of their primetime
programming is 16:9 480p

PBS-Numerous special programs

Local stations are doing some programs in HDTV in various cities: for
example, KTLA broadcast The Rose Parade in HDTV

Satellite

HBO HDTV-24 hours a day

Showtime HDTV-24 hours a day

HDTV Pay Per View-24 hours a day

So there's actually a lot of HDTV being broadcast and more and more all
the time.

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Re: MD: References: D3460839CC35D411B441000629EE18E10A6C71@LEVIN

2001-01-22 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith



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Welcome to the club :)

Ive had one for quite a while now (Minidisc in the car) - best thing I
evver bought, and it would be the one that gets the most use too.

Sure as hell beats listening to the crap on radio!

Greg Lincoln wrote:
 
 Hello everybody.
 have had Minidiscs now for 3 years and have just obtained my first car
 player. It is a SONY MDX-C8000. Could you tell me where I can Download a
 copy of the manual?
 
 Much Appreciated, Kia Ora from New Zealand!
 
 Greg Lincoln.
 
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MD: Sony MDS-DRE1

2001-01-22 Thread DJIO - Dionizio Bonfim Bach


Does anyone has this equipment.

I need to know more about it and to hear some opinions before I buy myself
one.

Any help is welcome

Cheers,

Dionizio Bach
DJIO . . . X)

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Re: MD: OT: DVD Resolution

2001-01-22 Thread las


OK, here's a dumb question.  A DVD has digital information on it like a CD,
no??  If it does, why can't they tap directly into the digital video
output?  HDTV is a digital TV.  Are there special digital inputs so that if
you had a digital source you would not have to use the analog component
video??

Taking all of this into account, film still kills video.  And film is
analog.  I can pick out any TV show that is shot in video vs film.  There
is a new TV show that is shot in HD video.  At times it looks almost as
good as film.  But then the video looks sometimes creeps in.

It's not going to happen because film is so expensive and complex compared
to video.  But if they really wanted to, they could improve the quality of
film even more than it is to the point where the optics and not the storage
media would be the limiting factor.

I know I'm off the MD topic, but what really amazes and confuses me is that
if something is shot on video tape you can tell.  But when film is
transferred to video tape it looks better than what you you have gotten in
you had originally shot it on tape.  Why is that?

Getting back to improving film, they can always double the size although I
imagine it would be pretty hard to work with 140 mm film.

Larry

Rodney Peterson wrote:

 Although DVD is output at 480i, and progressive scan DVD is 480p, a
 number of people are viewing them at upconverted 720p. While not true
 HDTV, it is a significant improvement over 480p from what I've read.
 Those people are using the same equipment I will be using: an HDTV with
 720p display capability and a DVD-ROM from a computer output to the Key
 Digital VGA to component video adapter.

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MD: SONY MDX-C8000

2001-01-22 Thread DJIO - Dionizio Bonfim Bach


I found the MDS-DR1 manual in .PDF at:

http://www.minidisc.org/

I tried your model for a while but no success, not even in altavista.

Good Luck!

DJIO . . . X)

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 Greg Lincoln wrote:
 
 Hello everybody.
 have had Minidiscs now for 3 years and have just obtained my first car
 player. It is a SONY MDX-C8000. Could you tell me where I can Download a
 copy of the manual?
 
 Much Appreciated, Kia Ora from New Zealand!
 
 Greg Lincoln.

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