Re: MD: JVC a Panasonic subsidiary

2000-02-17 Thread Paul Schauble
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === RCA = Radio Corporation of America, which

Re: MD: MT20 vs MS7xx vs MZR35 vs AMF70

2000-02-17 Thread Francisco Jose Montilla
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Eric Woudenberg wrote: Hi, All F70 reviews I've read rate it as an overall good recorder also, so I think this is the best bet. I've had it in my hands but I found it not very rugged, any experiences? suggestions? I've never owned one, so take my comments

MD: Sharp X5

2000-02-17 Thread David Fincher
Buyclearance has the Sharp X5 unit on sale for $229.95 if anyone's interested. It has a nice set of features, however the buyclearance page doesn't decribe it totally accurately. Here's the link: http://www.buy.com/clearance/product.asp?sku=7776 For the real item description, look at

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2000-02-17 Thread James Jarvie
Check this out. This what you have been saying all along. http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4432.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

MD: Cheap(ish) Blank MD's

2000-02-17 Thread Paul Rogerson
Hi All I was in London a couple of weeks ago and bought 10 Traxdata 74 Min Minidisks from MORGAN Computer Co in New Oxford Street (not the most likely venue for MD's, but a good venue for bankrupt computer goods) for £12.99 (ex VAT). Not as good price wise as RS but OK if you can loose the VAT

Re: MD: Defeating BEEP on Sony portables?

2000-02-17 Thread Edmund Wong
i'm the owner of 2 MD sony MZR-35 and i would like to know if you succeeded to find a way for killing the beep of the remote control. I need this information for making an interactive sculpture with remote controlling of the play/pause/sound level. i did not find any answer in minidisc.com

MD: MD - PC connection

2000-02-17 Thread Timothy P. Stockman
In my previous post (about the Sony commercial), I made the observation that transfering between PC and MD is extremely problematic at this point (1X transfer via S/PDIF or analog, titling via Slink, IR, etc). This response seemed somewhat interesting: better use a USB or FireWire Adding a

MD: Morgan warning

2000-02-17 Thread Tim Arnold
I was in London and bought 10 Traxdata 74 Min Minidisks from MORGAN Computer Co in New Oxford Street (not the most likely venue for MD's, but a good venue for bankrupt computer goods) Be warned. I have had terrible problems trying to buy stuff from this outlet. Be very, very, careful. Regards

MD: Just say no to MP3. :)

2000-02-17 Thread Guy Churchill
see http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4433.html Who is he kidding when he says (and I quote), "Based on our listening tests, we found that a 128-Kbps MP3 clip (sampled at 44.1 kHz) is almost impossible to distinguish from the music on CD." . Might be true if you are using a pair of