OT: long - Replacing CD's? was RE: [vorbis] New type of copy-prot ected audio CDs are coming...

[myles.buckley at home.com]

David 'Superkind' Roden Wrote on 20010405 at 1653

>On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 22:19:37 Myles Buckley wrote:
>> They will need to push for every device to provide only analog
>> outputs for pre-recorded media and prevent PC makers from
>> incorporating it into computers (good luck!).
> 
> Why? That 2nd part was perfectly demonstrated with the MiniDisc. I never
> saw a PC drive for that one.
 
problems with MiniDisc:

 - I can buy three portable CD players + car adapter kits for the price of a single Minidisc player.  (caveat - cheap cd players!)  I have yet to find an _inexpensive_ MiniDisc player.

Sound quality is inferior to CD.
 - lossy compression - Atrac format - generation losses

Minidisc hasn't caught due to the pricing issue.  There isn't enough market share to supplant CD's.

Myles

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