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- From: cmh@eng.cam.ac.uk (C.M. Hicks)
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- Subject: Re: WHY NOT USE A BIGGER DISK FOR SONY MD?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.122716.25053@eng.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:27:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.062808.10976@iitmax.iit.edu> <1992Dec22.162322.7061@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally) writes:
-
- >Gee if Sony used a bigger disk for MD, eg. the size of a CD then
- >they would no longer have to use ATRAC for data compression but
- >could record full bandwidth on the disk. It would have also meant
- >they wouldn't have a proprietary format. The last thing Sony wants
- >is to be compatible.
-
- Sony wanted to design a system that was more portable than CD, and they have
- done that with MD. What you have described is almost CD-R which is currently
- available in pro-audio outlets, but which is not portable. (For anyone who
- doesn't know, CD-R is a once-recordable CD-like medium. Having been recorded
- and given a TOC (table of contents) the discs may be played on a standard CD
- player).
-
- >At least with DCC, Phillips wanted compatibility with standard
- >cassettes and so had to use data compression to acomplish it.
-
- This is only partially true. They wanted back compatibilty as a shrewd
- marketing move. This is not really the *reason* they had to use compression.
- DAT, after all, stores more music on a smaller tape than DCC *without*
- compression.
-
- >MD will go into the 'Sony Hall of Shame' along with Elcassette, Beta,
- >etc..
-
- I hope not - it is a much more flexible system than DCC (IMHO).
-
- Christopher
-
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- Christopher Hicks | If it doesn't fit...
- cmh@uk.ac.cam.eng | ...you need a bigger hammer.
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