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- From: jj@alice.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: MiniDiscs -- What Are They?
- Message-ID: <24460@alice.att.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:26:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24460
- References: <1992Dec21.080720.27222@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Dec21.102747.1242@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <1992Dec21.140133.1002@spider.co.uk>
- Reply-To: jj@alice.UUCP (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
- Organization: NJ State Home for Bewildered Terminals
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- In article <1992Dec21.140133.1002@spider.co.uk> colint@spider.co.uk (Colin Tinto) writes:
- >What we really need is a stereo sized component that has both an MD and DCC
- >player in the one component box.
-
- >Surely since the decompression technology is similar (identical ?) this
- >would be a reasonable thing to do ?
-
- That's a curious statement. I find the difference between a 128 to 2048 band
- transform-filterbank coder and a 32 band polyphase/subband coder
- rather large.
-
- Is that what you mean by "similar"?
-
- Enquiring minds want to know.
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