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

[Robert J. Lynn Jr.]

Ohh, thats FUD!
You can buy a Casio MD player for $99.99 from MiniDisco.com!
ATRAC is an _EXTREMELY_  good compression algorithm. Most new recorders are
24bit anyway, so it makes up for it in a larger dynamic area. With Sharp's
ATRAC6, copy generation is almost eliminated!
-Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: <myles.buckley at home.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: RE: OT: long - Replacing CD's? was RE: [vorbis] New type of
copy-prot ected audio CDs are coming...

> 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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