MD: Sony lens/head cleaners (even better - ON SALE)
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MD: Sony lens/head cleaners...
http://www.planetminidisc.com/planetminidisc/sonymd6lcl.html http://www.planetminidisc.com/planetminidisc/sonymd8hcl.html - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: MD for recording sound for film?
When synch'ing sound and picture, there are two things that must be considered: 1) The sound recorder and the picture must run "at the same speed" to maintain synch. This, the most basic requirement, was often handled in movies by recording sound on sprocketted magnetic film using a synchronous AC motor in the drive system that was excited from the same source as the camera's drive motor. Now servo controlled drive systems are used in the recorders, and they are syncronized to a master timing source. 2) The sound and picture must not be "offset" from each other. This was originally accomplised by the clapboard, which placed a precise marker on both the picture (when the two parts made contact) and the sound (when the "clap" was heard) allowing the sound and picture to be started simultaneously at a common event on the separate mediums. Now timecode is used, and the "slave" machines chase the master to acquire lock. Consumer MD recorders have no provision for locking the record or play sample rate to an external source (video or film). So they only way things can work is to record timecode on one track of the MD from a timing source to which the camera is locked. The on playback, the MD would have to be the timing master, with the picture playback locked to the time code recovered from the MD. This is not really a good solution, that is, having the MD be the timecode master during playback. It would work in a pinch, but it would be much better if the video frame rate of the camera and the sample rate of the sound recorder had been locked in the first place. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: minidisc vs ???
Aparently, there is yet another portable music player, Iomega's ZIP, just in time for the Christmas buying season. I've seen more TV ads for it in the past few days than I've seen for minidisc in *years*. The ad points out the high cost of solid state media, although the ZIP media is still much more expensive than minidisc! Clearly, the ZIP players are the *least* technologically sophisticated, however, the ads protray them as *sexy*. I was just at Best Buy (Oxford Valley PA near Philadelphia) this evening. I really had to look hard to find their minidisc equipment; it was buried under an avalanche of Philips and RCA audio CD recorders. To their credit, they did have a couple JE440's in boxes, but none on display. They had an MZ-R70 and MXD-D5C on display. The MD/CDR audio equpiment was next to a bunch of bookshelf systems playing (rather loudly) a commercial radio station with really bad audio quality. This same store had a whole aisle of MP3 players with an MP3 information kiosk display at the end of the aisle. I guess marketing's perception is the MP3 is *sexy* and MD is not. So far as blank media, they had lots of CDR and CDR audio (a whole aisle plus some advertised specials in racks sitting in the middle of the floor), but virtually no MD, blank or pre-recorded. This last comment is a little off topic, but while I was in the store, I noticed that the lone Sony HDTV was almost buried beneath all the SDTV sets claiming to have "HD capable" monitors. "HD capable" looks to be a marketing ploy, because they only support a few of the HD resolutions. It seems that the Philadelphia area would be one of the prime locations to sell HDTV, because we've had 4 on-air HDTV stations for over 2 years! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
