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

[Dan Hollis]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:
> I speculate that these same people would probably have gotten DAT except
> that minidisc provides a more convenient and cheaper solution at
> acceptable audio quality

minidisc is more durable than DAT (no munched tapes), the media is
smaller, and it's random access. 3 big reasons I like it better than DAT>

> (well until someone is brave enough to make a vorbis recorder).

This would be nice 8)

> I'd be interested to know how much music gets sold on minidisc (i.e. how
> many sell as opposed to how much is available).

Not much. In japan it's popular to rent CDs from rental stores (a concept
unheard of in the US) and copy them to minidisc.

-Dan

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