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- From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: The real use of MD and DCC
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:02:26
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- Presumably, MD and DCC are not meant to replace CD's, but cassettes.
- So, then, if this is the case, where would these boxes fit? Easy, the
- same places as cassettes (but not turntables):
-
- - the home
- - the walkman
- - the car
-
- Well, one of the main uses of cassettes is compilation tapes for the
- car and walkman (we have CD's and turntable for prerecorded material),
- so we HAVE to have a home unit. Fine. Now the problems assoiated
- with cars and jogging/walking are the same, but tend to be larger in
- the car, so we must ask the the following questions of both DCC and
- MD.
-
- - Given the noise of the driving environment, is there a difference
- between them? Will they be better than the cassettes we have?
-
- - I live in Boston while I'm in school (I hate Boston so much, I could
- cry). Which handles bumps better? Is there a difference?
-
- - How many times can you rerecord on the damn things before they begin
- to sound like oatmeal?
-
- - How easy is it to delete and add new tracks (MD should be able to
- walk all over DCC with this--especially if you could use your Mac, PC,
- or NeXT box to do disk-style cleaning up for fragmentation and/or disc
- copying made easy and/or easy editing, etc)?
-
- - Which medium is more durable? Can handle changes in temperature the
- best? Hey, does the head touch on MD during playback? My tapes tend
- to disentegrate over time. I find this most annoying and would be
- happy for something more durable.
-
- - And, of course, will there be car models available?
-
-
- I don't know the answers to these questions and would appreciate any
- feedback; however, I suspect that--all other things like price and
- marketing skill being equal--MD might be able to win.
-
- On the other hand, I could just buy a DAT player and be done with
- it....
-
-
- --
- Peace.
- "What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind
- at all. How true that is."
- -- Vice President Dan Quayle winning friends while
- speaking to the United Negro College Fund
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