From: Simon Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors
> Wrong (sorry). While it's correct to say that you don't have to decompress
> the ZIP into a file, you do have to rever
Magic wrote:
> If I take a sound file which is 44.1kHz in 16bit, the same as CD, and ZIP
> it
> with WinZIP, it occupies less space. If I did this with all the music from
> one of my CDs, I could probably copy those ZIP files onto another CD and
> fit
> two CDs worth of music onto it (although a
Andrew wrote:
> (hence, "wavelet"), and can reproduce the signal almost *exactly*
> by compositing the wavelets at playback. This breaks the bounds of
> Nyquist's rule, which states that you must sample at double the highest
> frequency you wish to represent... because you're no longer samplin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
> CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically
> impossible, and practically impossible without increasing the bit stream
> allowed (24-bits/sample I believe).
I"m not total
Wrote RJ Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Actually the amount of data stored on an MD could be increased by 8x
without a blue laser, simply a slightly different red one. MD-Data2 uses
the different laser and a smaller track pitch to achieve a 5x increase in
disk capacity. Maxell has already prototyp
From: RJ Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: RE: MD: ATRAC-R and Laser Colors
>
> ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
> CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality
ATRAC can never surpass CD quality since it stores less information than
CD-DA. For the same reasons, equal quality is also theoretically
impossible, and practically impossible without increasing the bit stream
allowed (24-bits/sample I believe).
Actually the amount of data stored on an MD could
