MD: sony car decks

2000-10-29 Thread Matt Wall
=== The original message was multipart MIME=== === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === howdy all, recently on minidisc.org there was a letter to sony with = concerns about sony's md car decks. currently i am looking into putting = an 800r into one of my cars and

Re: MD: Sony MZ-R70 troubles (formerly "strange pauses during playback")

2000-10-29 Thread MarkPregen
Hello again, I have a correction, I actually have a Sony MZ-R70. To reiterate what I said earlier, I used it to record a concert. While playing back the concert, at about 3/4 through, the minidisc seems to pause for no reason for about 5-10 seconds then starts playing again. Is the minidi

MD: MiniDisc Weekly News for 29 October 2000

2000-10-29 Thread MiniDisc Community Pages Weekly News
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 22 October 2000 o Based out of Singapore, [1]MD Portal offers deals for MD portables and accessories for shipment worldwide. [1] http://www.minidisc.20m.com/ o Several new units are found: the [2]JVC XM-PX50/70 portable MD players (pictures s

RE: MD: Sharp MD-SR50?

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Forest
Why don't you simply buy a portable recorder/player sharp MS-722 at www.mercata.com This is a great unit at a very good price... Regards Pierre. --- ***Peter Forest*** www.kheopsminidisc.com www.kheopsinternational.com -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread las
Bruce Preudhomme wrote: Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to be the same as CDs. I should have thought it

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread las
Bruce Preudhomme wrote: Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't know about mini-disks and haven't take the time to learn. I did assume that the data on mini-disks was virtually uncompressed so that is why I mistakenly thought their capacity to be the same as CDs. I should have thought it

Re: MD: Hertz

2000-10-29 Thread las
"J. Coon" wrote: It is still used as shorthand, and it means Hertz now. I don't the sound of it, sounds to Nazi to me. Larry - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MD: kheops

2000-10-29 Thread J. Coon
I sure hope kheops keeps us informed. I know peopl e that are waiting for a good deal. Over the weekend I went to Chicago for a small workshop, There were 10 people in the workshop. I counted at least 5 minidisc recorders and one tape recorder. One of the people asked me to make copies of the

MD: Sharp MD-SR50?

2000-10-29 Thread KVE
Does anyone own an SR50 (or MT50)? I am thinking of buying one, since I need a simple thin recorder with adjustable recording level (I have a Sony R30 and I have to puy in pause to adjust recording level). I don't care about remote either. Does anyone have anything good/bad to say about it? Also,

Re: MD: Hertz

2000-10-29 Thread J. Coon
sherryl wrote: > But in the spoken word I still hear people refer to it as cycle as in > "sixty cycle". People don't call it Hertz. Says who? I hear it being called Hertz all the time. Besides being more universal, Hertz is easier and faster to say than cycles per second. > > Just for the

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread J. Coon
I still have some 60 minutes discs "David W. Tamkin" wrote: > > Bruce wrote, > > | I am happy with 74 minute mini-disks but am curious as to what if anything > | out there is going on to dramatically increase playing time (hence the > | reason behind asking questions 1 and 5 earlier). I am fa

RE: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread Bruce Preudhomme
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Yes, you are both right! There is a lot I don't

MD: kheops

2000-10-29 Thread Mike Hooker
hi, i would like to thank kheops for keeping us informed about all the various deals and discounts available for us minidisc users. Obviously, he is trying to build a business, but what better way than being of service to the community. a lot of what he posts has zero to do with what he sell

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread David W. Tamkin
Larry wrote, | David, the problem is that Bruce is thinking in megs and computer files not | PCM. Or that he's thinking in PCM and not in ATRAC. In a later post he implied that he thought an MD stored 650 Mb of uncompressed audio (ergo his calcu- lation that one MD could hold ten hours of 128-

MD: MD Cover for free !

2000-10-29 Thread Peter Forest
Try this great software for MD Cover for FREE... http://www.zone-24113.purespace.de/ Regards... --- ***Peter Forest*** www.kheopsminidisc.com www.kheopsinternational.com - To stop getting this

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread las
"David W. Tamkin" wrote: How do you figure that? 128-kbps MP3's take almost a meg per minute, David, the problem is that Bruce is thinking in megs and computer files not PCM. If the MD could store MP3 files and then further compress them through ATRAC he would get the length of music that he t

Re: MD: "jumping to" eighty-minute discs

2000-10-29 Thread David W. Tamkin
Bruce explained, | ... my CD-R doesn't handle 80 minute CD-Rs ... That's unusual AFAIK. Are you sure it's your CDR hardware and not just your burning software? In either case, nothing comparable applies to MD units: they all handle 80-minute discs. | If and when there is a mini-disk player t

Re: MD: New to the List with a few Mini-disk related questions...

2000-10-29 Thread Graham Baker
the audio data is compressed at a 5:1 ratio to enable it to fit on an MD. The capacity of a blank disc is 140MB - if it were 650MB there would be no need for any compression, except that perhaps compression is also needed to keep the data rate low enough for the (c1991) magneto-optical format to