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- From: ted@dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec)
- Subject: Re: MD and DCC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.020735.11283@dgbt.doc.ca>
- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <1992Nov5.191403.7585@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1992Nov06.164822.27194@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <Nov.7.17.13.24.1992.29321@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 02:07:35 GMT
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- In article <Nov.7.17.13.24.1992.29321@gandalf.rutgers.edu> rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes:
- >Mind if I slip into this thread?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Maybe I'm dreaming...
- i
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- You are dreaming in technicolor. Forget flexible. Forget high end.
- Forget "without compression". MD will be good, but never high end.>
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- Ted Grusec - Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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