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- From: hoford@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (John Hoford)
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- Subject: Re: MD and DCC
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:57:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.115434.24420@lut.ac.uk> M.Kwok1@lut.ac.uk (M Kwok) writes:
- >For both however, I feel Sony and Philips are wrong in releasing pre-recorded
- >MD's and DCC's because all it is, is lossy compressed versions of what is
- >available on CD. What I would do is to buy the CD, and dub it onto the blank
- >MD or DCC. Therefore you have the perfect original for use at home and copy on
- >the move ( or out of home).
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- Think of both products as attempts to replace the cassette.
- The same way they sell prerecorded cassettes they hope to sell the MD and DCC
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- My preference is for the MD because even though the quality is lower
- the random access and the small size are a big win, but I dont
- have many cassettes so the advantage of the dcc is lost on me.
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- John D. Hoford
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