Re: MD: MD's future and long play MD's

2000-03-22 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sony's gotta figure something out, in fact, I know they will. MD is only one of a few products that are backward compatable. A few that come to mind are" casette tapes - any compact casette player will play a compact casette unless it's digital or a different

Re: MD: MD's future and long play MD's

2000-03-22 Thread JR Moore
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Re: MD: MD's future and long play MD's

2000-03-21 Thread JR Moore
I think it's a good idea, and I would be interested in seeing an MD Data2 (650MB) based audio MD portable. I think it would be great for MDs to hold 4 times as much audio (~5h20m of 292kbps ATRAC, or ~21h of 66kbps ATRAC3). However, there are a few issues that complicate Sony's

MD: MD's future

2000-03-19 Thread Dr. Wailun Kwok
Dear all, I have read a lot of messages regarding MD, MP3,..., etc. I have also read some long discussion about MD's future not too long ago. I have some idea.. We can also look MD from different point of view. Because no matter ATRAC, WMA or MP3, they are all files in computer world. So, MD,

Re: MD: MD's future

2000-03-19 Thread Magic
From: Dr. Wailun Kwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MD-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: MD: MD's future Dear all, I have read a lot of messages regarding MD, MP3,..., etc. I have also read some long discussion about MD's future not too long ago. I have some

Re: MD: MD's future

2000-03-19 Thread Dr. Wailun Kwok
agic wrote: From: Dr. Wailun Kwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MD-List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 12:50 PM Subject: MD: MD's future Dear all, I have read a lot of messages regarding MD, MP3,..., etc. I have also read some long discussion about MD's future not too long a

RE: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread Simon Barnes
James Jarvie wrote: Now we all seem to agree on two additional points (other than wanting the format to survive and prosper), those being: 1) Sony is an arrogant and short-sighted company and 2) Sony's marketing leaves much to be desired. I demur on (1). I don't know if Sony is

Re: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread J. Coon
Simon Barnes wrote: Probably someone high up in the company dreamed up the idea of "End Search". Would they sell more units if they changed it ? NO. Would someone loose face if they did ? YES. I wonder what it must be like for a person working at Sony to see the company getting slagged

RE: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-31 Thread Brown,RJ (ug)
Personally i think that if they wanted to really push it, the next time they know they are going to have an album release, they should only release it on MD for the first 6 or so months, that would definately push a lot of people into the MD scene that

Re: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-30 Thread Magic
From: Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 8:30 PM Subject: MD: MD's Future Anyway, why not address the problem constructively: what changes does Sony need to make? As if we didn't already know the answer to that one GET RID

Re: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-29 Thread Matt Wall
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MD: MD's Future

2000-01-28 Thread James Jarvie
As many of you may know from my previous posts, I am a new convert to the MD format. Obviously, I want to see it survive and prosper as do all of you. I am amused by the numerous posts that all read something like this: If "Sony reads this"...or "Sony are you listening?" Now we all seem to