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- From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.013311.22956@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <BzB4Lz.LLL@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.155237.29875@ll.mit.edu> <1992Dec18.210014.22325@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 01:33:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.210014.22325@ll.mit.edu> rhoades@ll.mit.edu (Captain Chaos) writes:
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- >Using MD for computer storage is an appealling idea. Consumer electronics
- >formats have certainly crossed over before (DAT, VHS). I'd argue, however,
- >that the audio user would actually use more blank disks than the computer
- >user. Think about it: I can fill up 74 minutes of sound easy, but it takes
- >me a lot longer to fill up 150 MB! I toss out 150 MB as a guess at MD
- >capacity (CD-ROM=600+ MB, MD has ~1/4 the data a CD has).
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- MD, and DCC both use lossy compression. Therefore, they are TOTALLY
- USELESS for computer storage!>
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- Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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