Re: MD: Sony/Palm Deal?

2000-01-31 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This notice came from the e-mail newsletter Palm Weekly, for Palm organizers: 4- Sony and Palm Deal What do you think of the new Sony and Palm deal? Was it smart of Palm to sign a deal to incorporate the Sony Memory Stick

RE: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread Simon Barnes
James Jarvie wrote: Now we all seem to agree on two additional points (other than wanting the format to survive and prosper), those being: 1) Sony is an arrogant and short-sighted company and 2) Sony's marketing leaves much to be desired. I demur on (1). I don't know if Sony is

Re: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread J. Coon
Simon Barnes wrote: Probably someone high up in the company dreamed up the idea of "End Search". Would they sell more units if they changed it ? NO. Would someone loose face if they did ? YES. I wonder what it must be like for a person working at Sony to see the company getting slagged

MD: RDS-EON

2000-01-31 Thread Joost de Meij
where do they sell such a device that does this? Most Sony tuners have this build in. When you tune in on a RDS-EON channel, then you can receive the radio text. Greetingz, Joost __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: MD: HELP: je510 phantom turn-on bug revisited

2000-01-31 Thread J. C. R. Davis
// Curtis Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've heard many horror stories about people bringing their units in to get fixed, only to have the thing start acting up again in a few months. . . . I have a Best Buy extended warranty an am tempted to demand a different model unless someone has had a good

MD: Fwd: md-l-digest V2 #509

2000-01-31 Thread James Jarvie
I don't know, it seems to me like Sony may be placing all it's bets on solid state technology. I really don't have a problem with it as long as it's as easy to use as MD and memory gets into the same price range as a blank MD (not likely to happen any time soon). I guess I would also

RE: MD: md-l-mimedigest V2 #515

2000-01-31 Thread Dave Helgerson
Which sony models have this? Is it portables only? Is it all of the portables? I bought the Sharp 702 because of budget limitations. I'm glad I didn't spend more and get that (non) feature. -Original Message- From: Magic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 1:30

MD: Help my CD-RW drive thinks all CDs are audio discs

2000-01-31 Thread PrinceGaz
Hi guys, if any of you can help me I'd be eternally grateful! My CD-RW drive has decided every CD I insert is an audio CD. This is fine if it is an audio CD, file manager lists eg. "track01.cda" to "track12.cda" for a 12 music track cd and it plays fine. But when I insert a data cd, whether

MD: which units have END SEARCH

2000-01-31 Thread David W. Tamkin
Dave Helgerson asked, | Which sony models have this? Is it portables only? Is it all of the | portables? Sony portables have it. All Sony portables have it. Only Sony portables have it. Any other MD recorder -- if it is not portable, or not Sony, or neither -- does not have it and will

RE: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread Brown,RJ (ug)
Personally i think that if they wanted to really push it, the next time they know they are going to have an album release, they should only release it on MD for the first 6 or so months, that would definately push a lot of people into the MD scene that

RE: MD: Help my CD-RW drive thinks all CDs are audio discs

2000-01-31 Thread Martin Schiff
Try going into the program that comes up when you insert the CD, and turn off auto play when CD is inserted. Then insert the CD and see if you can read it with Windows Explorer. -- Martin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of PrinceGaz Sent:

MD: Md Blanks

2000-01-31 Thread Fendral
Circuit City has 20 pack of memorex MD 74min blanks for $30US... Comes in 4 5 disk cases that hold 6 md each - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: Help my CD-RW drive thinks all CDs are audio discs

2000-01-31 Thread Edmund Wong
friend I'm visiting end of march. I did install AOL 5.0 trial recently but surely they couldn't have sent an infected CD out!!! Well, AOL 5.0 has been known to conflict with virtually everything on earth apart from itself. In fact, tech support departments regularly tell users to call AOL

Re: MD: Help my CD-RW drive thinks all CDs are audio discs

2000-01-31 Thread J. Coon
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === check out the newsgroups alt.cdr alt.cdrom

RE: MD: Help my CD-RW drive thinks all CDs are audio discs

2000-01-31 Thread Rick Pali
From: J. Coon check out the newsgroups alt.cdr alt.cdrom alt.comp.periphs.cdr The last one has tons of messages. ... or is it tonnes? It depends if you mean 2000 lbs of messages or 1000 kg of messages. :-) Rick. -+--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alienshore.com/

MD: Napster MP3 finder

2000-01-31 Thread J. Coon
Is anyone familiar with Napster MP3 finder, chat room? http://www.napster.com/ -- Jim Coon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If Gibson made cars, would they sound so sweet? My first web page http://www.tir.com/~liteways - To stop