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- From: joe@avs.com (Joe Peterson)
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.042449.530@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:24:49 GMT
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- Ted Grusec (ted@dgbt.doc.ca) wrote:
- : 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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- The compression is just for audio! Think about it: the digital data on
- the disc represents a compressed form of the audio, but if used for
- data storage, this is not the case!
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- Joe
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