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- From: flamengo@wpi.WPI.EDU (Lourenco William Dantas)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: MiniDisc is here!
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 23:53:39 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- In article <1992Dec15.143059.9149@news.cs.brandeis.edu> weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Adam J. Weitzman) writes:
-
- >(a) You *still* have to buy another piece of stereo equipment, be it an MD
- > player or a DCC player. While it is true that you *can* trash your
- > cassette deck if you buy a DCC player, you don't have to.
-
- Well, I pointed this out in terms of those who are planning to
- upgrade their systems, like from a boombox to a component system.
- So instead of getting both a tape deck plus a MD player, one can
- simply purchase a DCC player.
- >
- >(c) Let's say you have a DCC with some tunes you like on it. If you want to
- > record over one in the middle with a different song, you have to redo
- > the rest of the tape unless the times of the songs match up exactly. With
- > the MD, it's no problem at all, like recording a file onto a floppy disc.
- > You just delete the old one and put the new one in its place. Doesn't
- > matter how long it is (up to the total blank time of the disc, at any
- > rate).
-
- I did not think of this point. I have to agree that this is an
- advantage for the MD.
- I have heard, though, that the quality of recordings on the DCC
- is superior to that on a MD.
-
- >Truthfully, neither of these formats matches up to CD in terms of sound
- >quality due to the lossy compression algortihms employed by each. To me,
- >what we are trying to decide on is a portable format, something to listen to
- >in the car and on a personal stereo, where you can tape the songs (sorry,
- >*record* the songs, I'm gonna have to get used to that :-) in any order you
- >please and take it on the road with you. Based on the specs of each, I am
- >100% behind MDs.
- >[...] Besides, since (a) both of the
- >technologies are inferior to CDs and (b) they're more expensive, why would you
- >*want* to buy pre-recorded MDs *or* DCCs in any case? I have no plans to do
- >that at all! I'm just going to record my CDs onto blank MDs to listen to
- >outside the home. I have a feeling that eventually, the price of DCCs and MDs
- >will fall to below CD level, so they can phase out pre-recorded cassettes,
- >and the price argument won't hold anymore, but the quality one still will.
- >
- >Anyways, that's why I hope the MD becomes the format of choice. I hope too
- >many people aren't bamboozled by backwards compatibility as you are to see the
- >argument to be made for MDs.
- >
- >--
- > - Adam J Weitzman
- > weitzman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
-
- I agree with you in terms of the pre-recorded music. I'll still
- be buying it in the form of CDs, which like you mentioned, are
- of greater quality than both the two new formats. That leaves
- them for use in portable equipments and car stereos.
-
- Nevertheless, I still am not convinced that the MDs are the way
- to go. It is great that all of you are coming up with these points
- about the subject. We'll just have to see how things shape up and
- what develops. I can wait. The new equipment is too expensive now
- anyway!
-
-
- LOU (flamengo@wpi.wpi.edu)
-
-