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- From: rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: MD and DCC
- Message-ID: <Nov.7.17.13.24.1992.29321@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:13:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.191403.7585@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Nov06.164822.27194@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Mind if I slip into this thread?
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- I sure hope that DCC dies a horrible death and MD survives. MD has the
- advantage of reliability and fast access. DCC's only advantage is that
- of compatibility with an old standard.
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- Does anyone know how flexible the MD standard is? Does the code on
- a recording tell how much compression is used so that it is decoded
- properly? It would be nice if this were so, since then high-end
- recordings could be done with little compression, but released on
- multiple disks to make up for the extra data. Even better would be
- if the standard somehow allowed for improvements in technology where
- eventually the data in a CD could eventually be squeezed into an MD
- without compression. Thus, future MD players could play high-end
- recordings but still be compatible with older MD recordings.
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- Maybe I'm dreaming...
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- Regards,
- Ralph
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- Ralph Gonzalez, Computer Science, Rutgers Univ., Camden, NJ
- Phone: (609) 757-6122; Internet: rgonzal@elbereth.rutgers.edu
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