peter;332369 Wrote: > Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to > > play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing > back > then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did > allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course.... >
But remember that at the time the MD was introduced, you needed an extremely expensive computer to properly do audio recording. Heck, I bought a new PC after having MD for a couple years and even it had a tendency to drop a lot of samples when I tried to use it as a recorder. Not that I really mean to defend Sony here...they eventually did come up with a PC MD drive, but of course they deliberately crippled it for music use which, combined with its absurdly slow speed, made it largely uninteresting to just about everyone. I still find it less nerve-wracking to capture analog sources via a standalone CD recorder, then copy the bits into the computer for prettying up. -- atrocity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
