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- From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.025929.20038@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 03:04:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan12.025929.20038
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- In article <1993Jan12.010042.20828@wam.umd.edu> warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one) writes:
- >thus quoth dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
- > The next question is that of capacity. If the MD player is at CD
- > quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second. I
- > believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes. This yields 44,000 x 74
- > x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB. This is unformatted, of course.
- >
- >*2 for stereo BUT
- >they use a lossy compression method to reduce the data to 8 bits
- >so this is correct
- >
- >but we already have rewritable magneto-optical media for PC's
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- True, but the benefits of mass production are going to aid price
- decreases for the MD much more than they will ever be able to aid
- magneto-optical media, just from the fact that it's mainly a digital
- audio systems designed for home electronics. If they start selling
- all over the place, and it seems they might, you can kiss
- magneto-optical goodbye.
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