Re: MD: Li-ion Gumstick Battery for MZ-55?

2000-05-01 Thread Leon
There are no Li-ion batteries avaialable for the R55. Size-wise it is possible to make a Li-ion battery that small, but the capacity will not necessarily be above the current Ni-MH type. Leon I lost my MZ-r55 MD battery and remote and I am clueless on what to do. Ive heard wonders about

MD: AIWA Troubles =(

2000-05-01 Thread Richard
Hello, This is my first post to the list I hope someone can help because this may be too expensive to fix. Here's the situation: said player was dropped onto a lino floor. but stupidity of said action aside, :) the unit still plays well and seems to work like a charm.. that is until you

MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Ivica Petrovic
watch this! it's an excerpt form British magazine Hi-Fi news record rewiev, May issuemaybe it will help for developing discussion "The 1999 Hi-fi show was certainly intriguing...but the van den Hul demo somewhat threw me and I suspect many others as well. Mr. A J Hul was there himself,

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread JR Moore
We all call ATRAC "compression", when it is not. It is bitwise reduction. No ATRAC is compression. It's removing audio from the PCM stream. Cutoff and compression ARE NOT the same. How many times do we have to say this? A single side of an analog Laserdisc can hold about as much audio data

MD: Pro Rack-Mount

2000-05-01 Thread Matt Peterson
I'm looking to buy a rack-mount player/recorder. Can anyone recommend a dealer with good prices on MDS-E11/E58? -- Matt Peterson another.geek.without.a.life [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://matt.peterson.org/ -

Re: MD: MD in Boston, MA

2000-05-01 Thread John S. McLachlan
Just figured that I would point out a place in Boston called Boston Sound. They are on Tremont Street near Park Street Station (Red/Green Lines). They have what is probably the best retail selection of MD players and recorders in the area. Have personally never noticed anything spectacular with

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Remko van der Vossen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | I agree with you, there is a big difference between compression and | compression, you can compress air, and you can compress digital data. When | we're talking about compression in the Computer Science sense of the word we | are

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* JR Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | Yeah BUT, analog signals when recorded don't have a set size. You can't say | "1 minute of analog audio takes 5MB", you just can't. You can control the | amount of audio it holds by changing the speed. Say what? A CLV Laserdisc _always_ holds

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Remko van der Vossen
This is my point: CD-DA sampling makes the data smaller, and you can get the data back with negligible loss (at least that is what most people think). By your own definition, CD-DA is a form of compression. You stripped away my and someone elses original point, modern dat compression is

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | One thing to make clear again: You can _not_ use the size of physical | media to determine relative compression. Which is why I specified media *DENSITY*. CD and LD have the same media density, so for the same quantity of media they have identical

RE: MD: Li-ion Gumstick Battery for MZ-55?

2000-05-01 Thread Simon Gardner
I lost my MZ-r55 MD battery and remote and I am clueless on what to do. Ive heard wonders about the Li-ion batteries. I was just wondering if they are available for the MZ-r55 and where can I get the gumstick batteries. Anyone know where I can get a cheap remote? pelase help thanx

MD: Higher capacity MDs possible?

2000-05-01 Thread Jeanmougin
60 minutes MD spins at 1,4 m/s linear. 74 minutes MD spins at 1,2 m/s linear. 80 minutes MD has the same linear speed than 74 minutes MD and thinner groove to increase the capacity. So, is it possible to make MD with a groove as thin as MD 80's but with a slower linear speed to increase the

MD: Fa mz-r90 with mic and extras

2000-05-01 Thread lbotkin1
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Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "Remko van der Vossen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | You stripped away my and someone elses original point, modern dat | compression is strictly in the digital sense of the word, Because you and "someone else" ignored my point that CD-DA sampling is a form of *ANALOG* data

Re: MD: AIWA Troubles =(

2000-05-01 Thread Richard
Once the battery contacts are no longer in their original state, they may or may not maintain shape properly, no matter how you bend them. Oh.. shoot.. I've noticed that minidisc recorders tend to be fiddly in this respect.. a few Sony MZ R55's at work had these problems right out of the box

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* "WZ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | It depends whether you're in SP, LP, or EP mode. When you're in EP mode, | you get 8 hours. So you don't always get 120 minutes. You always get 120 minues in SP mode, whether you are recording your favorite program, static, or nothing at all.

RE: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread WZ
You always get 120 minues in SP mode, whether you are recording your favorite program, static, or nothing at all. The data itself has a constant, quantifiable size. You can run the tape slower, to fit more data, but quality drops in proportion to speed. Sounds exactly like lossy

Re: MD: AIWA Troubles =(

2000-05-01 Thread J. Coon
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Here is the proper way to fix it when

Re: MD: Sony MZ-R90 / 91

2000-05-01 Thread Zr0e
From personal experience ( i own the Ice blue r91 (japanese version) ) That these machines are very reliable. I previously owned a sharp 702 and was thoroughly dissapointed, the battery life on the r91 is insanely great, the versitility and now with the bazginge titling device I dont think

Re: MD: Higher capacity MDs possible?

2000-05-01 Thread Leon
I read that it is certainly possible, but so far the magneto-optical material hasn't been capable to achieve some of the properties needed. I'm not sure about the technical details, but it seems to be something about the magnetic power of the material. If you drop speed more, more data is being

Re: MD: Yamaha MD Data mixers

2000-05-01 Thread Microtiny7
I own the MD-8 and it's awesome.the mixer is analog but does the job regardlessBUT the data MD's are RIDICULOUSLY expensive! Tom - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
All other things being equal, 16-bit linear PCM takes up less space on a CD than analog audio does; cf CD-Video (not to be confused with VideoCD). The sampling process has made the data smaller. Playback of the PCM data is in most cases almost indistinguishable from the analog original. This

MD: MD-PORT!!!

2000-05-01 Thread Tom Thielen
Check out MD-port @ www.xitel.com !!! Does anyone know anything about this device?? -Tom - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MD: Sony MZ-R90 / 91

2000-05-01 Thread Black_Angel
I have the MZ-R90 and i LOVE it... It's small, light, nice, I can record in Digital and I never had any problem. The only difference between R90 and R91 is the shape, all the technical specifications are equal. Un momento... Milano, Italy??? Hahaha, l'ho letto solo ora... e io che mi

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread gopi
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: Another example: cellular vs. digital pcs. Same absolute bandwidth. No conventional compression. Yet you can get several times more effective bandwidth with pcs on the same carrier as you can with cellular. Actually, you will find that

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | Actually, you will find that digital cellular systems virtually | universally use lossy compression for the voice. GSM for sure does, and | most others I have seen do. Actually, no, they don't. This comes straight from a guy who co-wrote the Sprint

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Jiawei Ye
If "compression" is defined as you did (you defined CD-DA as "compression"), no digital mobile phone system will exist in the US, 'cause "the FCC does not allow compression or encryption" Just following some conventions, will ya? Jiawei Ye - Original Message - From: Stainless Steel

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread Richard Malcolm-Smith
By that definition, ATRAC is not compression. But by our consensus, ATRAC is compression. We have decided that the comms definition is too narrow for our needs, so we use a different definition, one with a broader scope. Instead of an algorithmic transformation, compression is the process

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread gopi
On 1 May 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | Actually, you will find that digital cellular systems virtually | universally use lossy compression for the voice. GSM for sure does, and | most others I have seen do. Actually, no, they don't. This

Re: MD: compression

2000-05-01 Thread gopi
On 1 May 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote: * "Jiawei Ye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 01 May 2000 | If "compression" is defined as you did (you defined CD-DA as | "compression"), no digital mobile phone system will exist in the US, | 'cause "the FCC does not allow compression or encryption"

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2000-05-01 Thread Antonio Banderas
Does anyone know of software on titling a sharp 831 MD from your PC? (In English) - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]