RE: MD: re:cheap sony CD Players

2000-02-04 Thread Keith Wilson
Peter, are you sure that you are no way affiliated with http://www.hedstrong.com ? Like yourself, I will not bow down to the pressures of sponsorship! http://www.hedstrong.com are merely a band, which currently have a free mp3 track from their next EP available on the website:

Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?

2000-02-04 Thread John Graham
David: | I had understood that making a recording from a digital source would | *always* set the SCMS copy status, thereafter allowing only one digital | copy. This seems to break that rule. That wasn't the rule. Yes, recording will always set the SCMS bits, but it won't necessarily set them

Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?

2000-02-04 Thread LAS
"J. Coon" wrote: LAS wrote: Hi. If I remember correctly it is the MD recorder that adds the SCMS. If that is correct, then either you have a one of a kind recorder or the copy is not true digital. It is my understanding that computers aren't required to set the SCMS bits. They

MD: Funny in-song searching on JE-510

2000-02-04 Thread J. C. R. Davis
I own a Sony MDS-JE510, and it does one thing that irks me: when I seek backwards in a song (that is, while a song is playing, I press the backwards seek button), the player will go backwards a few seconds (depending, of course, on how long I hold it), then jump forward several, usually about

MD: HI-SPACE Minidiscs $1.39 each

2000-02-04 Thread Cassette House
Hi Folks, We are having a sale on HI-SPACE minidiscs. Since 1986, Americ Disc has specialized in the manufacturing of audio, multimedia and video media. Today MPO/Americ is the 6th largest optical media manufacturer in the world, Under the brand-name HI-SPACE, Americ Disc manufactures and

MD: Mono Pre-recorded MDs?

2000-02-04 Thread J. C. R. Davis
I'm just curious whether or not there are any prerecorded MDs in mono using the entire 148 minutes available. This could be ideal and a great bargain for some oldies from the first part of the 1900s. J. C. R. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

MD: Quick 80-min MD question

2000-02-04 Thread J. C. R. Davis
Is it true that some units have problems playing 80-minute MDs. If so, what happens? Thanks, guys gals. J. C. R. Davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: MD: Characters available for titling MDs

2000-02-04 Thread J. C. R. Davis
// quote: "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following, regarding expanding the MD format's available characters: Lots of us would like it, but I think that ship has sailed. It would require revising the MD standard, and I wouldn't be surprised if many existing units couldn't

Re: MD: Mono Pre-recorded MDs?

2000-02-04 Thread jds
it would also be great for audiobooks... I usually record mine to MD for convenience. hmm. 9 tapes or 5 MDs, tough decision :-) -Jeffrey -- The day MS makes something that doesn't suck will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners. On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, J. C. R. Davis wrote: I'm

MD: Sony

2000-02-04 Thread Jim Gray
I would tend to doubt that anyone at Sony bothers to look at this digest, else someone would've spoke up by now... we still do not know ,to this day, whether Sony knows how much most of us hate and despise End Search, and probably don't know or care that they really blew it when they didn't put

MD: and another thing...

2000-02-04 Thread Jim Gray
Forgot to mention that a product called D-Solvit is good for getting labels off, it's orange scented and comes in very small or large plastic bottles, if it's still on the market... I guess I'm gonna have to try that timer thing, so can we assume that when you press "timer' on your Sony deck,

Re: MD: Mono Pre-recorded MDs?

2000-02-04 Thread Graham Baker
I don't think you will find any pre-recorded md's like this - the md market is aimed at youth and the market would be way too small to cater to 'oldies'. FWIW, I have recorded quite a number of mono discs - filled them up with old mono vinyl and mono radio recordings. To have almost instant

Re: MD: Sony

2000-02-04 Thread Magic
From: Jim Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: md [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 9:43 PM Subject: MD: Sony Any Sony lurkers, please speak up now! I would think that anyone working for Sony would have been expressly told not to speak on behalf of the company without it being an

RE: MD: Funny in-song searching on JE-510

2000-02-04 Thread Miguel Gomez-Zapata
Hi I had a 510 two years ago and i had the same problem... I think this is a problem only with the 510.. From: J. C. R. Davis Is this something that just happens on the 510, or is it a Sony MD thing? -- Miguel

RE: MD: Funny in-song searching on JE-510

2000-02-04 Thread Rick Pali
From: J. C. R. Davis Is this something that just happens on the 510, or is it a Sony MD thing? I've got a 520 and it certainly doesn't do that! Rick. -+--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alienshore.com/ - To stop getting this

MD: Tuns

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Kenward
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. :-) Or even, 2240 lbs. MK __ Michael Kenward OBE / Phone: +44 (0)1444 400568 Fax: 401064

Re: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?

2000-02-04 Thread Brent Harding
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === But suppose, I do a digital copy of a CD, I

RE: MD: Unlimited SCMS from SBLive!?

2000-02-04 Thread Martin Schiff
Larry, I believe you are correct, because this problem just bit me in the butt. I made original recordings to MD with microphones, and when I try to transfer them to the computer using a Hoontech soundcard with Yamaha drivers (which implement SCMS) it will not copy. Interestingly enough, if I

RE: MD: Characters available for titling MDs

2000-02-04 Thread Rick Pali
From: Francisco Jose Montilla Sure! There aren't localized versions AFAIK, I think, without being sure that the only "special" are japanese units; the rest are all "english". I know that there are Kanji-abled version in Japan and am curious if the Kanji displays in an English-only player.

Re: MD: Characters available for titling MDs

2000-02-04 Thread Edmund Wong
I know that there are Kanji-abled version in Japan and am curious if the Kanji displays in an English-only player. Anyone know? Also, what happens when a disc with Kanji titles is inserted into a unit which does not know how to display them? Something else that has been bothering me