RE: MD: Minidisco problems

2000-09-11 Thread Link :-7
Hello, I'm sorry to hear about your experience with Minidisco. I've worked with them for over a year now and have found your problem to be alarming. 1) As for the way that addresses enter on the shipping label, I know first hand that the address that enters is the shipping address. My

Re: MD: MD comes through

2000-09-11 Thread Dan Frakes
"J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn Sony and there stupid refusal to get rid of that damnable END SEARCH button. Whoever disigned the END SEARCH button should be strung up by his petubies. After three years on using Sony R30 it still bites. Jim, did you see the news item on

MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread las
If there is such a debate over the difference in quality between a CD and it's MD copy, why don't they use the same technology for Md that they use for the new HDCD? Funny, I really never heard any complaints aobut the quality of CDs in recent years, yet they still felt that they should improve

Re: MD: MD comes through

2000-09-11 Thread las
Dan Frakes wrote: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn Sony and there stupid refusal to get rid of that damnable END SEARCH button. Whoever disigned the END SEARCH button should be strung up by his petubies. After three years on using Sony R30 it still bites. Unless they are going to

Re: MD: Minidisco problems

2000-09-11 Thread J. van de Griek
J. Coon wrote: That is good advice Peter, I have had to do the same thing when a different company shipped something standard and it was supposed to be Over Night. When I didn't get the merchandize, I called them and it had been misrouted by UPS, and I wouldn't get it for another two

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Burger
How much data can the new HDCD hold? The only issue with sound quality regarding MDs is due to the vact that ATRAC is a compression algorithm, and you always lose something in compression. A CD holds 650MB worth of data, uncompressed. An MD...only 160MB. I don't know what possible method

Re: MD: md-l-digest V2 #751

2000-09-11 Thread las
cosmo wrote: I'm not going to quote what you wrote because then I'd be accused of quoting. As for myself, I always try and edit out as much as possible when I reply to a post. I even remove the footer about UNSUBSCRIBE (now that's something that annoys me). As far as decks; I reached a

Re: MD: The Minidisco System

2000-09-11 Thread Kiran Wagle
Mark Linkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: As for the way that addresses enter on the shipping label, I know first hand that the address that enters is the shipping address. My guess is that you mixed up your billing and shipping address. Nope. This was a garage sale order; they *HAD* to take

Re: MD: md-l-mimedigest V2 #751

2000-09-11 Thread john . rolt
Point 1: Thanks for the link - MiniDisc Community Pages News for 5 September 2000 o Peter Ravn finds the [1]Sanyo MDC3100F boombox at Brinkmann (Germany) for DM 400 (~US$180). The unit has selectable Eur/US/JP AC power and FM bands. [1]

Re: MD: Napster article

2000-09-11 Thread Neil
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 12:35:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To a certain degree, copyright still applys. However domestic use is considered "time-shifting" - it would almost certainly be a different matter should you attempt (and be noticed) to be selling, distributing, or otherwise

Re: MD: OT: Re: Napster article

2000-09-11 Thread Neil
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:11:26 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If not money, then something else. In essence money is just another symptom of what we crave. There are few people that simply like money, intrinsically - by that I mean simply spend adoring hours, gazing lovingly at stacks of

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread Michael Jones
--- las [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is such a debate over the difference in quality between a CD and it's MD copy, why don't they use the same technology for Md that they use for the new HDCD? Are you really talking about HDCD - the extension to the Red Book CD format developed by

Re: MD: MD comes through

2000-09-11 Thread J. Coon
Dan Frakes wrote: "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn Sony and there stupid refusal to get rid of that damnable END SEARCH button. Whoever disigned the END SEARCH button should be strung up by his petubies. After three years on using Sony R30 it still bites. Jim, did you see the

MD: Decks, to use or not

2000-09-11 Thread J. Coon
las wrote: My point. I sold my deck (that was sitting around collecting dust) on ebay. I have two portable recorders and am perfectly happy living with the more versatile portables. Just get a portable CD player with a mini digital output. My deck is so much easier to title with than the

Re: MD: Re: MD comes through

2000-09-11 Thread Graham Baker
Rick, This is good news! Whilst it is true that I don't catch up with the MD news as often as I used to, the last time I raised this issue (a question to MD-L, 12 July re: any response to the petition) the only reply to it AFAIK, was a link to Sony's polite (but non-committal) response...

Re: MD: Re: MD comes through

2000-09-11 Thread J. Coon
Eric Woudenberg wrote: It's sad to think that some of my favorite, old-timer, list members do not read the MDCP news! :-) Sony has capitulated and put in a user selectable mode ("Rec-pos: From End") wherein the recorder will always start recording at the end of existing material (what a

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread las
How much data can the new HDCD hold? As far as I know the same as a regular CD. The only issue with sound quality regarding MDs is due to the vact that ATRAC is a compression algorithm, and you always lose something in compression. Yes, but if you can improve the over all sound quality

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Burger
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, las wrote: How much data can the new HDCD hold? As far as I know the same as a regular CD. But isn't there some compression involved there? If so, what's being lost? The only issue with sound quality regarding MDs is due to the vact that ATRAC is a compression

MD: billing and shipping addresses / 520 editing

2000-09-11 Thread David W. Tamkin
First, digest-mode members, please use informative subject lines instead of "Re: Digest" when you respond. Not only we individual-message readers but also you digest readers when you scan the table of contents want to know what an article is really about in order to decide which ones to read

Re: MD: UPS Problems

2000-09-11 Thread David W. Tamkin
Joost is not alone. I needed some more blanks for plans over a weekend, and I'd ordered them from Minidisco, who told me to expect them Thursday or Friday. So late Thursday afternoon, while I've been right in the foyer of my house within a couple feet of the doorbell's chime, I hear a truck

Re: MD: Sony JB940 prices

2000-09-11 Thread cosmo
Does anyone have a good lead on who sells the Sony 940 deck at the best price? thanx! - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: Sony JB940 prices (and JE640 vs JB940)

2000-09-11 Thread Ryan Shoemaker
www.video-direct.com gave me a $289 quote (plus shipping) a couple weeks ago. The salesman said that they would be available mid September and that he already had a list of people that prepaid. So, I've been combing through my old md-l mail and was interested to hear what people have to say

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread las
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Mike Burger wrote: But isn't there some

Re: MD: HDMD?

2000-09-11 Thread las
Rodrigo Drupi Mansilla Jiménez wrote: Reply to Jimenez: Wow!! You really know your stuff about this!!! I just started reading about it this morning, having only hear about the technology Sat. night. So from what you say, although it would not be that simple to do, you could make an HDCD MD.

MD: HDCD COMPACT DISCS

2000-09-11 Thread las
After thinking about the post explaining a little about HDCD CDs, I realize that in order to make HDCD MDs, you would have to equip the recorder with an encoder as well as a decoder. I have a feeling that even if the chip were not large, the cost of installing such a device into an MD recorder

Re: MD: The Minidisco System

2000-09-11 Thread WLMCBuzzed
In a message dated 9/11/00 10:03:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: since there is some bashing/negative comments about minidisco going on here i'll put in some positive. Same here..To date, have ordered 2 times with Minidisco..BOTH I have been very happy with. On one particular

MD: MZ-R900

2000-09-11 Thread Rodney Peterson
Considering this little gem. Anyplace that will take credit cards for it or is it strictly wire transfers. Is $399 the lowest price? Any reports from anyone who has one yet? - To stop getting this list send a message containing

RE: MD: Sony JE640 vs JB940

2000-09-11 Thread Richard Lang
I can't help you out much with prices from NZ, but in terms of features 640 vs. 940, I draw the following differences from my latest copy of Sony Pulse (a consumer catalogue published by Sony): If you believe the Pulse, MDSJB940 has the following features that the MDSJE640 doesn't: - 1 x Co-ax

RE: MD: The Minidisco System

2000-09-11 Thread Peter Forest
I agree with you about Minidisco... Me too, only good experience with them... However, when you're in Florida, you're better buy from us ! We are in Florida ! Kheops Minidisc from Edgewater, Florida ! Best Regards, Peter - Pierre Forest -

MD: MD to DAT and Back?

2000-09-11 Thread James S. Lee
Is the optical output of a MD deck readable by the optical input of a DAT deck? If so, do SCMS protocols apply across platforms (MD to DAT)? Jim Lee - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe"

RE: MD: MD to DAT and Back?

2000-09-11 Thread Churchill, Guy
Is the optical output of a MD deck readable by the optical input of a DAT deck? Yes. (see note 1) If so, do SCMS protocols apply across platforms (MD to DAT)? Yes. (see note 2) Note 1. The DAT *may* record at 48/44/32khz whereas the MD will be at 44khz output (although most will