* Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Mon, 22 Oct 2001
| (Well, it's got to be both or neither to be compatible with all
| players, right?) In fact it's true (again, contrary to Mr. Rat's
| free-association-masquerading-as-informed-posting), see
|
* wolfgang buresch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 21 Oct 2001
| Q#10: What bitrates are used?
| A:.In LP2 and LP4 modes 20 bytes of dummy data per
| 212 byte soundgroup.. -- those 20 bytes -- are they
| a fact or just a wild guess?
They are a fact. The dummy data is required so that
So, the volume controls on my MS-722 are acting flakey. Which means that
until I get it fixed (assuming I can and do), I've fallen back to my old
MZ-R30. But I couldn't find the old CaseLogic case I kept it in. Hrm. So
I check out the local Best Buy because that is where I got it. No luck.
* Eric Ivanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 Oct 2001
| corruption or some other wear related issue. How long does the media
| generally live?
Sony claims ~1,000,000 times rewrite capability. Even low quality MD
blanks should be good for at least 250,000 rewrites.
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* macdef [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 10 Oct 2001
| For the money ($20), the best earbuds I've heard (by a long shot) are the
| Sennheiser MX-500 which can be found for $15 - $20. I find them to be
| significantly better than the Sony 228s.
The only good (and I use that term loosely) Sony earbuds
* Alexandre Enkerli [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 06 Oct 2001
| My portable came with a Xitel AN1. AFAIK it's pretty similar to the Sony
| PC-Link.
Actually, it is identical to the Sony Analog PC-Link because the PC-Link
kits are made by Xitel.
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* Wil Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 27 Sep 2001
| From what I last read, it prevents CDs being read in CD-ROM drives.
| Michael Jacksons new album is the next up to use it, and it means no MP3
| ripping (until someone cracks it :P)
Ummm... you are a little behind the times, because every
* Jeffrey Scorsone [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 24 Sep 2001
| it was still playing :-) The old ones were built solid!
Partially the miniaturization process. The smaller you make a thing using
the same materials -- the 90/900 series is made of about the same materials
as the 30/50 -- the more
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 06 Sep 2001
| You have to remember that they didn't take the compact cassette and start
| recording video on it.
Actually, there *were* several attempts at doing exactly that, mostly as
childrens' toys.
| When we made the move to home video recording, the tapes
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 22 Aug 2001
| sorry, but these sigs annoy me to no end, considering they are not
| leagaly valid as has been proved in a few small cases that i can't quote
| off hand, and the shear length of them
Never mind the fact that they are three times the length of the
* John S. McLachlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 21 Aug 2001
| Anyone else heard of this?
It's called MDLP. Mabe you've heard of it?
:)
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* J. Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 07 Aug 2001
| player? I tried one of those FM RF modulators several years back and it
| didn't work too well. Have they improved any? Is there another way?
No, they have not, and in some areas (like around Boston, MA) they are
totally useless as the FM
* Steven Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 07 Aug 2001
| Actually, I have to disagree. I have had the Sony RM-X69RF FM RF
| modulator in my car in use with MDX-65 for a couple of years now and it
| works flawlessly.
I believe Jim is talking about things like the Wireless Sound Feeder,
exactly
I use a box made for trading card storage, three wide. Its a little deep,
but the right width. They're durable and they're cheap.
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 23 Jul 2001
| Does anyone know the sound quality for the following models as far as volume
| is concerned? I know from previous experience that certain players do not
| play music loud enough. (i.e. you can't listen to your music on a plane
| because the plane's
* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 13 Jul 2001
| Yeah, but they're $50 at Best Buy!
Which is about 1/4 the price of replacing your MD recorder when the
el-cheapo power supply fries it.
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* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 13 Jul 2001
| Most of the Sony Transformers that I have seen are seem are el-cheapos
| that are made in China.
They're still made to power and charge a specific category of portable
electronics. The Radio Shack adaptors may work. But I have also seen them
* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 12 Jul 2001
| Nah, just checking to see if anyone had leads on one dirt cheap. Looks
| like $15 at RS is the cheapest.
Like I said: Sony 4.5V wall bugs work. I've used one for my 702 and 722
for about as long as I've had them. I use a Sony 4.5V car
* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 11 Jul 2001
| Anyone know where to get an inexpensive AC adapter for a Sharp MD-MS702?
4.5V Sony wall wart.
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* J. Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 11 Jul 2001
| Is there a program that can makee a blank audio grade CDR from a
| computer grade CDR?
If by that you mean turning a data CD-R into something that can be used in
a home or studio CD-R recording deck, no. The bits that identify the media
are
* I Can Not Tell You [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 30 Jun 2001
| But with rate at which the computing power is going. That shouldn't be too
| much of a trouble. It would just be annoying. Wouldn't it?
Well... maybe. You see, MPEG-1 Layer III audio and ATRAC have different
perceptual coding
* Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 30 Jun 2001
| music stick stuff works now. i doubt (or at least hope that they dont do
| the following) just give you a coded so you have to re-enocde them all of
| your files. but this is all speculation. anyway what i'm waiting for is
The transfer
* J. Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 26 Jun 2001
| To stimulate your thinking, please examine the actual results captured as
| screen grabs from directly out of CoolEdit:
Sorry, Charlie. Humans don't want images that look good, they want music
that sounds good. The ugliest picture of a
* Al Kohout [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 24 Jun 2001
| will it play on every dvd player??
Maybe. This is one of the newer DVD-RAM decks which uses MPEG2 instead of
DV (such as 8mm digital camcorders). Discs recorded on this deck should
play on any DVD-Video deck. In practice, some less equal
* Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 17 Jun 2001
| Did anyone actually receive my apology or did it just dissapear off the face
| of the earth?
I saw it.
Twice, actually.
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* Marc Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 17 Jun 2001
| it probably can, but Firewire has all of the stuff in place. but then
| again so do USB CD-R's
USB CD-R/W is a SCSI hack. That is, the driver and drive pretent to be
SCSI devices. USB was never intended to be used for this sort of thing.
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 17 Jun 2001
| My question is this, does firewire have to be limited to video and audio
| devices?
No. IEEE 1394 (remember, Firewire is an Apple trademark for one
implementation of IEEE 1394) is a low cost, high speed replacement for SCSI
in the small market
* Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 14 Jun 2001
| Hmm, two companies producing equipment with Firewire does not mean it is THE
| standard as said in the previous e-mail, but a standard, so it is not the
| wrong tense
Is becoming the standard for a/v components is past tense. That is
* Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Jun 2001
| But two companies producing it does not mean its THE standard for a/v
| components does it, as there are more than two companies on the face of the
| planet, so the tense wasn't incorrect
(And people are complaining about me being
* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Jun 2001
| You make it sound like it is impossible for Sony to disable things like
| that.
| And they would disable it because...
So that consumers don't muck around inside their gear and break things and
return otherwise perfectly good units and cut
* Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Jun 2001
| Not a mention of high speed,
Ahem. The context of this discussion is, paraphrased, moving music from
computers to MD equipment faster than S/PDIF. S/PDIF doesn't do that
(obviously :). AES/EBU doesn't do that. TTL doesn't do that
* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Jun 2001
| As for the Sharp jacks that are impedance-sensing, while they may not sound
| as good as a dedicated line out, they are much better than a simple
| headphone jack. You can still use those jacks to hook your portable up to a
| good headphone
* I Can Not Tell You [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 14 Jun 2001
| A firewire solution would be better off since it is becoming the standard
| for a/v components that offer pc connectivity.
Wrong tense :).
Apple and Sony have been shipping equipment with IEEE-1394/Firewire for...
three years now.
* Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 14 Jun 2001
| I mean, disagreeing every once in a while is *good*, but someone who is
| *always* disagreeing about *everything* becomes bothersome after a short
| while.
If I always disagreed about everything... oh, never mind.
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* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 13 Jun 2001
| I disagree. Inside my Aiwa XR-H66MD is definitely different than most
| Sony equipment that I've seen. Aiwa uses Sony parts, and that's as far
| as the similarities go as far as I can tell. However, just about all my
| audio equipment from
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 12 Jun 2001
| NO. That is simply not correct. Not only that, but the analogy simply
| does not apply. If you had said Ford and Mercury, the analogy would be
| closer, but you would still be incorrect.
Ahem. FYI, Lincoln is a Ford Motor Company company, just
* Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 13 Jun 2001
| Aiwa having the same circuits as Sony sounds to me as Bentley using the same
| pieces as a VW just because VW owns it...
| OTOH, they both use steel, so yes, I guess they are sharing technology.
Substitute lens head assemblies and
* Marc Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 13 Jun 2001
| in case anyone was wondering i finally got off my butt and hooked up my
| xitel from my sony md-r700dpc and played around a bit to get USB into my
| linux kernel and its working fine.
Details? What USB module(s) required, and what sound
* Luis Dodero [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 12 Jun 2001
| Ok, well I know this has been discussed in the past, but it's never been
| clear to me. I have an MZR-700 with G-shock (40 seconds?) of Anti
| shock.
No, you have an MZ-R700 with G-Protection. G-Protection is a new
implementation of
* Christoph Hertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 12 Jun 2001
| 200 seconds I think.
40 seconds base, 80 seconds in LP2 mode and 120 seconds in LP4 mode.
G-Protection stores the raw ATRAC data as read off the disc.
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* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 12 Jun 2001
| That's not correct. At least not with the models before the FM90! Aiwa is
| a totally separate operation from Sony.
On paper, maybe. The difference between Sony and Aiwa is very much like
the difference between Ford and Lincoln.
| They have
* Shawn Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Jun 2001
| My circa 1994 Sony MDS-501 (ATRAC 2) has the same Dolby Labs
| license/patent message printed on the back of the unit itself and also
| in the manual.
My dates could be off. I was under the impression that the joint work had
come later, not
* Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Jun 2001
| ... specially since Sony had their SDDS sound system, which competed
| directly against Dolby Digital. It would be very weird for Sony to share
| technology with their primary competitors.
Philips and Sharp. Names ring any bells?
* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Jun 2001
| The Q33's are simply *awful* headphones, unfortunately. If you want to try
| earclips, the best ones by far (in fact, the *only* earclips I will even put
| on) are the Koss KSC-35 or KSC-50 (I prefer the 35's).
What is different about the
* Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 10 Jun 2001
| Didn't Sony invent ATRAC, violating some Dolby compression patents? Then,
| Sony handled the ATRAC license to Dolby, or something like that, in order to
| avoid litigation.
No. Sony developed ATRAC in-house, not violating any Dolby
* Mike Lastucka [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 10 Jun 2001
| I picked up a pair of Sony MDR-EX70SLs, those nude ex ones. They're
| amazing. The things fit right into the ear canal (obviously you want to
| watch your volume here!), so they're very comfortable and you barely notice
| them after
* BurninSidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 10 Jun 2001
| I 've just read some kind of statement about NI-CD and Ni-MH rechargeable
| batteries.
| Is it true that Ni-Mh has no memory effect?
It is more accurate to state that modern rechargeable batteries of any sort
have no memory effect, including
* Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Fri, 08 Jun 2001
| Yes, but Sony could have chosen their double-cable Joint-Text approach
| (read: hack) for other reasons (they would have to be good ones, I'll
| grant you).
I can think of a good one: the R through W subcode
* Robert J. Lynn Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jun 2001
| A. Maybe the bits are stored on a carrier wave? Like a T1, per se.
This would require modulation, like the old C64 and Apple ][ tapes. And
yes, doing so would require some very high frequency square waves. Maybe
DCC does that, but
* Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jun 2001
| Overlap of the track is not necessarily bad. By varying the placement
| angle of the heads on the drum (azimuth?) we can effect an alternating
| polarization of the tracks as they are written to the tape. This allows
| the tracks to be
* Robert J. Lynn Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jun 2001
| Nah, it'll probably just sound like white noise, right?
Ever try playing a CD-ROM in an audio CD player? Assuming it is possible
to play a data cartridge in an audio deck (which I cannot confirm), the
potential noise could be much
* Timothy Stockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jun 2001
| In fact, that information *is* on the the S/PDIF digital audio signal
| coming from the digital output of a CD player (assuming the disc is
| encoded with CD text). All of the subchannel bits except P are sent
| via the usr bits of the
* Mike Lastucka [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 07 Jun 2001
| Does the choice of minidisc basically boil down to which one do you would
| find more impressive to pull out of your player in the vicinity of
| others?
For me it is whichever manufacturer has labels I can write on. TDK is my
favorite
* Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Jun 2001
| it is the sample frequency that matters, not the signal frequency.
How is this different from my point about resolution back at the
beginning of this?
Fact is, at any given sampling frequency, storage capacity is constant
regardless of what
* Christoph Hertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Jun 2001
| I'm wondering what wonderful things the USB-cables that come with the
| Sony MD-recorders (e.g. MZ-R700PC) will do for me. As I understand the
| naming of the tracks on the MD will be easier
No, it won't, since none of that information
* Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Jun 2001
| I see no reason why you cannot compare the bandwidth and/or space
| requirements of digital and analogue recordings. Given that all recordings
| are ultimately stored as an analogue form,
You are assuming that digital signals are modulated
* Peter Jaques [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Jun 2001
| i'm not saying that PCM represents an audio frequency of 1411200Hz, i'm
| saying that in order to represent 22.05kHz, the analog square wave put on
| tape is 1411200Hz. the square wave is the bits themselves.
You are mistaken if you
* Francisco J. Huerta [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 02 Jun 2001
| So, how about explaining why he is wrong? I mean, it's very easy to say no,
| nah, ni, but it is a bit more complex to say why. I know the reasons, but I
| would definitely leave the explaining to an expert.
Square waves taking more
* Grant Goodale [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 31 May 2001
| Also, is it just me, or does the PCLink cable pictured look remarkably
| similar to the new DG-2 available from Xitel? Are they both sourcing some
| third party for that cable now?
That is because it is a genuine Xitel MD-PORT
* David W. Tamkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 31 May 2001
| The picture on that page shows a deeper brick color for the 900DPC than the
| painfully vivid reds in other photographs of it on the web. Is there anyone
| on the list who has seen one and can describe the color?
That is an MZ-R700 I
* Stainless Steel Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 01 Jun 2001
| And yes, the red R900 is a brighter shade of red.
URL:http://www.tweeter.com/commerce/product1.asp?sku=MZR900DPCpf_id=9389942dept_id=60
The image is the correct model, and the shading is close to right, but the
real thing has
* Jacob Alifrangis [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 01 Jun 2001
| Analog is recorded with sine waves, whereas digital is recorded with
| square waves, which take up more room.
Where did you get that bit of misinformation?
| Also, tapes sound better if the tape is moved past the head faster
| (lower
* Stuart Howlette [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 01 Jun 2001
| From what I understand, Sony gets the link from Xitel and rebadges it
Sony doesn't rebadge it. The DG-2 that came with my MZ-R900 (that I
purchased this morning) says Xitel on the back.
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* Danny-K [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 30 May 2001
| I am curious to learn exactly how sampling at twice the highest frequency
| changes things. I'm trying to visualize it, but I can't grasp it.
Are you familiar with the term jaggies in regards to images displays?
Jaggies are the stair-stepping
* Ken Clinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| I've made some compilation discs at LP4, for my *noisy* commute (crowded
| bus, downtown traffic noises) and it's fine for that. Also probably would
| work well for low-volume background music. But at home, it's obvious that
| the high
* Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| i pretty much agree with most of what was said here, another thing that
| kidna backs this up is that DVD video took off like a bat out of hell,
No, it didn't. DVD-Video went nowhere for three or four years before it
ramped up. From a point
* Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| I disagree 110%, compared to vhs/beta/HDTV/dang near any new product
| projections DVD did take off like a bat out of hell.
DVD-Video has been around for about five years now. Its growth has mostly
been in the past two years. In its first
* Ivica Petrovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| the fact is: CDs are sounding awful! [snip]
And your point is?
I mean, none of this is anything we did not know already, although I think
you are a bit more... militant about it than most.
Of course, if CD-Audio sucks, in your opinion,
* Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| wow i now realize my mistake, how wrong i was. since you said this i went
| out, gee wiz no video stores carry dvd's to rent, best buy doesn't carry
| them and has never, gee wizz how could i ever have thought that this
| technology ever took
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 29 May 2001
| The joke is that the local Sam's Club sold a two disc very highly rated
| Toshiba DVD player that was HDCD CD compatible. The instructions manual
| says that, the player will automatically detect an HDCD CD and a light
| will come on. Well I'm
* Mike Hooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 26 May 2001
| i would like for anyone interested to grab these files from me and give
| them a listen. those really in the know can do spectrum analysis and what
| ever else is available to do this kind of comparison besides the ears.
What purpose
* Stainless Steel Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 27 May 2001
| What purpose will this serve? None at all. We allready know that the
already
| waveforms will be slightly different because the algorithms and reduction
| rate are different
* Matt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 19 May 2001
| ya know i think this depends on your area, my best buy still has about 5
| portable models on display and i know of at least 2 home decks too. but
| then again this thread pop's up about once every other month too.
Some stores appear not to
* James Jarvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 10 May 2001
| Can someone please explain (in simple terms) what
| Firewire is?
Firewire is Apple's trademark for their implementation of the IEEE 1394
specification. It is a fast (currently up to 400Mbps), inexpensive serial
interconnect bus for
* Peter Birley [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 09 May 2001
| They have the best original build quality of any laptop I have ever seen
| (505 and z600 series),
At the very least they are consistently good. Not exceptional but few
lemons.
| but sony my laptop in for repair for six months, and billed
* "Stuart Howlette" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 11 Apr 2001
| My guess is (possibly incorrect, but anyway) is that the atrac chip in the
| x5 is an earlier version of the 702's, meaning its poorer in compression,
| meaning poorer in storing music.
No. There are no interoperability issues
* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 19 Mar 2001
| Seriously, "The Plug" are simply terrible headphones. They sound plain
| *awful*.
Wow. I tried a set myself and did not feel that way. I personally
disliked them for the actual feel. I don't like having things wedged into
my ears like
* "Dan Scellen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 19 Mar 2001
| I am interested in the Koss KSC-19 and KSC-20, which are in-ear buds
| that wrap around your ear sort of like the KSC-35's. Does anyone know if
| these sound any good? Comparable to the 35's?
First question: not especially. Second
* "Edward" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 17 Mar 2001
| out of the following (reasonable, but cheap [i think]) headphones which
| would you recommend:-
| - Sony MDR-EX70LP
| - Sony MDR-ED268LP
| - Sennheiser MX-500
Well, Sony earbuds are mediocre at best, and most of them just
* JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Mar 2001
|
|http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn010315-1/jn010315-1-1.jpg
Much better. :)
Thanks.
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* "Chad Gombosi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 16 Mar 2001
| What the hell man? The URL works. I'm no computer web God and I had zero
| problem whatsoever getting it to work the first time. Please drop it.
You had zero problems, I had 100% problems until JT posted a working link.
You see, there
RFC 1738 "Uniform Resource Locators", APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in
Context
In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other
kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news
messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to
* Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Mar 2001
| a
| href="http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn010315-
| 1/jn010315-1-1.jpg"__/a
Nope.
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* Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Mar 2001
| http://www.matsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn010315-1/jn01
| 0315-1-1.jpg
And you can stop hitting Return part-way through a URL.
Or you can get a better mail client, one that doesn't break URLs, because
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* "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 05 Mar 2001
| What does "is" mean?
| If I have two pieces of paper that are identical and I write hello on
| one of them, it is physically different
Right, but your analogy is flawed in that data CD-R and audio CD-R are not
identical pieces of
* Glen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 27 Feb 2001
| Does anyone know the ATRAC versions of the Sony Portable Recorder MZ-R55 and
| the Sony Bookshelf system DHC-MD555?
Sony does not publish that information. Best guess is Sony ATRAC vesrion
4.0, but it could be 4.5 or something else, depending on
* "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 20 Feb 2001
| If you record the output of a 12:1 MP3 file to MD at 5:1, the result will be
| worse than 12:1, but it won't be as bad as 60:1. Try it for yourself.
And may in fact be undetectable, depending on the MP3 encoder and decoder
used.
|
* "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 20 Feb 2001
| Otherwise, would anyone else be able to switch the disc for you? If you live
| alone, will a neighbor have a key? Can a friend in the DFW area record one
| of the shows for you?
At this point I suspect something like Creative's
* Markus Laurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 19 Feb 2001
| Aye, I'm aware of all of that. But I fail to see the point of discussing
| something which in the end is something subjective. I mean, discussing if
| circuit city or Best buy are cutting down on their MD section without any
| facts, thats
* John Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 19 Feb 2001
| Would you pay over $200 for an MD player?
More to the point, would I pay over $200 for a portable MD recorder? The
answer to that for me is four times yes: Sony MZ-R30, Sharp MS-702, Sony
MZ-R90, Sharp MS-722. The R30 was the most
* John Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 15 Feb 2001
| So, what player is this ... is there a 'good' one, in this sense, out there
| yet?
Bear in mind that the amplifier driving your headphones (I'm assuming
headphones because you are talking portables here) sucks. Sony headphone
amps are
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 13 Feb 2001
| I'm sure it makes you feel good to know that some IBM punch card probably
| had their name or number listed (the Nazis destroyed as much as they
| could-they were insane record keepers-but just as insane about trying to
| destroy the evidence).
|
Since it was brought up by me recently that Napster lost, it is now
official:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010212/ts/napster_lawsuit_11.html
Monday February 12 3:17 PM ET
Court Says Napster Must Stop
By RON HARRIS, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Napster (news - web sites)
* "Robin Landy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 08 Feb 2001
| Anyone else had similar experiences?
Can't say that I have.
But I would have done things differently. I would have taken the unit to
the point of purchase and have them replace it, and let them deal with Sharp.
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* Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 05 Feb 2001
| I've never had any SCMS related problems recording digitally from DVDs
| (audio soundtracks), using a coax interconnect from my DVD player to the
| coax-in on my bookshelf.
Weird.
Maybe its just the stuff I buy ;).
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* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 04 Feb 2001
| I thought that the DVD's sound can be copied just like a CD
That ultimately depends on what kind of sound is on a DVD-Video. Different
regions have different requirements. AC3 and dts include SCMS marks, and
commercial DVD-Videos are marked
* las [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 29 Jan 2001
| None of which is unique to THX-certified equipment.
| Individually. But the combination is what gives it a uniqueness.
Not so. The "uniqueness" is the certificate, not what is inside the box.
Like I said, THX means it passed a test; it does not
* "Don Capps" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Jan 2001
| Timbre matching = special EQ settings used to correct for different speaker
| reproduction characteristics...
Which is functionally identical to special EQ settings used to achieve
certain types of simulated environments such as cathedral
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 29 Jan 2001
| Please clarifyDon C. suggested that THX certified equipment has
| nothing to do with processing, but the certification is a set of
| guidelines required to achieve an " optimal" theatre sound. [...]
That is correct.
| And why suggest to the
* "Francisco J. Huerta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 29 Jan 2001
| AFAIK, THX Ultra and Select are certification processes. BUT they do add to
| the decoding scheme.
No, they don't. THX does not do any of these things. Did you read the
recently posted excerpt from the THX FAQ? THX is
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