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

2000-03-22 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 dif

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 > de

Re: MD: MD's future

2000-03-19 Thread Dr. Wailun Kwok
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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

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

2000-01-31 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 slagg

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 i

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 OF T

Re: MD: MD's Future

2000-01-29 Thread Matt Wall
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