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- From: ji0000m@medtronic.COM (James Imholte)
- Subject: Re: Discmans for walking? (was: Re: Sony Car Discmans?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.142216.3617@medtron.medtronic.com>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:22:16 GMT
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- In article <3LQWBQDT@cc.swarthmore.edu> hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
- >savoia@sw.stratus.com (Rick Savoia) writes:
- >:I'll wait until the MD comes down to the price of the CD
- >
- >Does anyone know what the sampling rate for the MDs are? If it's
- >significantly higher than CD's sampling rate, and high enough that it's
- >beyond human ability to distinguish, then MDs might be worthwhile.
- >
-
- I'm not sure of the sampling rate but MD format is compressed so it probably
- (at least for now) will be inferior to CD's. I'm excited about MD as a
- replacement for cassettes in the "portability" department. I won't replace
- my CD's with pre-recorded MD's but copy my latest CD to an MD to drag around
- until I'm sick of it then copy over it. Imagine... just like copying files
- on a computer.
-
- As a safety feature (for music industry) I believe you can only copy CD info
- onto an MD from an original source (you couldn't CD > MD > MD > MD ... etc.
-
- I'm jacked and waiting for all the frills.
-
- Jim
-
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