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- From: tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony Wen Hsun Lai)
- Subject: Re: MiniDisc is here!
- Message-ID: <92Dec26.142249est.47894@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Dec17.150950.5126@lucpum.it.luc.edu> <1992Dec24.000809.20271@informix.com> <Bzu539.DDt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <PHR.92Dec25155046@napa.telebit.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 19:23:10 GMT
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- In article <PHR.92Dec25155046@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
- >In article <Bzu539.DDt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rmg53668@dcl-nxt53 (Ryan Martin Grant) writes:
- > MD still suffers from the same problems CD-ROMs do with regard to
- > variable spin rates and inertia killing random seek times. I still
- > look forward to a small portable disc capable of handling well over
- > 100MB, but I do not expect it to replace my 250MB HD.
- >
- >MD has 1/4th the transfer speed of CD (hence the 4:1 compression).
- >This bit rate is comparable to a floppy.
- [stuff deleted]
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- Er, I recall some magazine mentioning that an MD has a transfer rate of
- around 1.4 Mbit/s, comparable to a CD; the transfer rate has to be much
- faster than the compressed audio bit rate to keep the audio buffer full.
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