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

[fungus]

Mat Bettinson wrote:
> 
> Heya fungus,
> 
> f> The new breed of mp3 playes - the ones with 6Gb
> f> hard disks inside them - will kill minidiscs.
> 
> All due respect but they clearly will NOT. Spending 30 seconds
> thinking about why people find Minidiscs attractive; extreme
> resiliance shock (you can jog with MD players) and a very
> small size (many scarcely larger than an MD and not heavy
> bricks like the Creative Jukebox).
> 

Who's talking about the Creative jukebox?

I saw a new player yesterday which was about the same
size as a normal walkman, 6Gb capacity and labelled with
a big "high shock resistance" sticker.

> Neither of those are touched by HD equipped MP3 players. Yet.
> 

"Yet"

6Gb is a lot of storage. Being able to carry over
a hundred CDs around with you makes this player
very "small" indeed. Minidisk players aren't so
small when you add in the size of a couple of
spare disks.

Recording to minidisks is still a pain as well,
they work like an analogue tape recorder - press
record then play your musinc into them. MP3 players
can be 100% controlled by your computer desktop and
have track info, playlists, etc.


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