Re: MD: recording not in realtime?

2001-09-16 Thread macdef
"Graham Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is a definite problem with increasing the write speed to >disc... This is one of the main reasons (besides poor marketing and >excessive price) that MD data never made it big time - the write >speed is limited due to the physical properties of the

RE: MD: recording not in realtime?

2001-09-14 Thread Gerard Naude
Subject: Re: MD: recording not in realtime? > > > | At the end of the day ATRAC is just a big math algorithm. The speed at > | which the algorithm is applied does not matter. > > It does for processing power, and as Graham Baker has pointed out, for the > write mechanism to keep up.

Re: MD: recording not in realtime?

2001-09-14 Thread David W. Tamkin
Gerard Naude wrote, | At the end of the day ATRAC is just a big math algorithm. The speed at | which the algorithm is applied does not matter. It does for processing power, and as Graham Baker has pointed out, for the write mechanism to keep up. But please read on; Gerard continued, | The onl

Re: MD: recording not in realtime?

2001-09-14 Thread Graham Baker
... GB - Original Message - From: "Gerard Naude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 14 September 2001 4:31 Subject: RE: MD: recording not in realtime? > > At the end of the day atrac is just a big math algorithm. The speed at which >

RE: MD: recording not in realtime?

2001-09-14 Thread Gerard Naude
At the end of the day atrac is just a big math algorithm. The speed at which the algorithm is applied does not matter. Mp3 is also just a big math algorithm, but you don't encode your MP3's at 1x do you? :-) The only other limit I can think of is the speed at which the platter of the actual disc