Re: MD: New MD-using product?
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === ya know that's one of the best ideas i've heard around here in a long time, only real problem would be cost, i'm not sure how many people wanna pay over $100 for an answering machine just because it's MD, but it is a cool idea. - Original Message - From: "Richard Rudie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: MD: New MD-using product? I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in. Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My grandfather is almost unintelligible on the machine, because for some reason his voice doesn't get along with the compression. I wondered what compression it uses, and could it use ATRAC? (It's a model SPP-A941, if anybody might know what it does use.) The next logical step was: why not have a MiniDisc answering machine? It would be like the cassette-tape answering machines of old, but using a MiniDisc to store the greeting and the messages. 74 minutes would be plenty for messages, and with MDLP you could go for a month without erasing messages. I know several people who lament the demise of tape-based machines, because they used to have a few tapes handy with different greetings: weekdays, weekends, vacations, etc. This could be done again with MiniDiscs. Track one would be the greeting, and each successive track a message..? Anyone else think this'd work? How about it, Sony? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: New MD-using product?
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === I dunno if price of an MD answering machine would be too big a deal if it were part of a high-end digital cordless phone combo, you know the DECT type phones. Gaz. - Original Message - From: "Matt Wall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ya know that's one of the best ideas i've heard around here in a long time, only real problem would be cost, i'm not sure how many people wanna pay over $100 for an answering machine just because it's MD, but it is a cool idea. - Original Message - From: "Richard Rudie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in. Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My grandfather is almost unintelligible on the machine, because for some reason his voice doesn't get along with the compression. I wondered what compression it uses, and could it use ATRAC? (It's a model SPP-A941, if anybody might know what it does use.) The next logical step was: why not have a MiniDisc answering machine? It would be like the cassette-tape answering machines of old, but using a MiniDisc to store the greeting and the messages. 74 minutes would be plenty for messages, and with MDLP you could go for a month without erasing messages. I know several people who lament the demise of tape-based machines, because they used to have a few tapes handy with different greetings: weekdays, weekends, vacations, etc. This could be done again with MiniDiscs. Track one would be the greeting, and each successive track a message..? Anyone else think this'd work? How about it, Sony? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: New MD-using product?
I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in. Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My grandfather is almost unintelligible on the machine, because for some reason his voice doesn't get along with the compression. I wondered what compression it uses, and could it use ATRAC? (It's a model SPP-A941, if anybody might know what it does use.) The next logical step was: why not have a MiniDisc answering machine? It would be like the cassette-tape answering machines of old, but using a MiniDisc to store the greeting and the messages. 74 minutes would be plenty for messages, and with MDLP you could go for a month without erasing messages. I know several people who lament the demise of tape-based machines, because they used to have a few tapes handy with different greetings: weekdays, weekends, vacations, etc. This could be done again with MiniDiscs. Track one would be the greeting, and each successive track a message..? Anyone else think this'd work? How about it, Sony? - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
