MD: RE:Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-13 Thread chaulsr
=== = NB: Over 50% of this message is QUOTED, please = = be more selective when quoting text = === Sony already have a MD2 technology, which is so

Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-12 Thread Shawn Lin
Alan Dowds wrote: > > Just a thought. > > Why didn't Sony make MD double sided? Could have followed the analogue > cassette analogy (!) and given twice the recording time for almost the same > cost? MD is like CD. The active layer is on the top of the disc, and the disc itself is optically cl

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-12 Thread Jacob Alifrangis
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Dowds Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MD: RE: Future of MD Just a thought. Why didn't Sony make MD double sided? Could have followed the analogue cassette analogy (!) and given twic

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-12 Thread Alan Dowds
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerard Naude Sent: 12 June 2001 07:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MD: RE: Future of MD Hmmm, come to think of it: To flip a disc over to get 500 MB isn't so hot. SDMI, ugh. IF ONLY Sony/Sharp would make

Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-12 Thread las
Gerard Naude wrote: > Hmmm, come to think of it: > > To flip a disc over to get 500 MB isn't so hot. SDMI, ugh. IF ONLY > Sony/Sharp would make MD devices that could take the 650 MB discs, and maybe > give MD recorders data transfer capability? Now THAT would be hot. Imagine: > Throw like 2

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-11 Thread Gerard Naude
Hmmm, come to think of it: To flip a disc over to get 500 MB isn't so hot. SDMI, ugh. IF ONLY Sony/Sharp would make MD devices that could take the 650 MB discs, and maybe give MD recorders data transfer capability? Now THAT would be hot. Imagine: Throw like 2 hours of music onto it, a few ph

Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2001-06-11 Thread Eric Woudenberg, Minidisc.org Editor
Hi Gerard, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dataplay is yet another nail in the coffin for MD. Although the atrac > compression has a foreseeable future, the actual media, MD, is dying. For > audio, 74 mins on a MD sized disc is ok, when compared to Cd. Keep in mind > then that it is compressed. N

Re: MD: Re: Future of MD

2000-05-11 Thread Michael Burger
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RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
als from the music industry (of which they are of course apart). SCSI/USB/IE1394(firewire, i-wire)->MD is easy and just makes sense. But they will not do it. C'est la Sony, RJ K >Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:32:33 -0400 (EDT) >From: Jeffrey Scorsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread Zr0e
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Re: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread Matthew Wall
>>>bla bla bla erased > Someone also mentioned that they thought a USB drive running at faster than > real-time would cause the MD format to take off MD, sadly, is not > realistically going to be write capable at much faster than x2 due to the > nature of the media and it's thermal dissipati

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread Richard Wright
At 13:32 10/05/00 -0400, you wrote: >what about Sony's CD-MD combo that writes at 4x? > >have there been issues with that? I vaugely recall guidelines for >getting 4x, but most of them seemed to be stuff like the cd not >being balanced due to labels, or excessive cover art on the disc. >I don't

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Scorsone
what about Sony's CD-MD combo that writes at 4x? have there been issues with that? I vaugely recall guidelines for getting 4x, but most of them seemed to be stuff like the cd not being balanced due to labels, or excessive cover art on the disc. I don't recall there being a problem with the MD m

RE: MD: RE: Future of MD

2000-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:56:19 -0400 >From: Eric Woudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: MD: Future of MD ~ - ~ >Could you tell me where you heard this? That was a paraphrase from the vice CEO of Panasonic corp. I was placed in touch with him when I started asking around for sellers of MD