David W. Tamkin wrote: In reply to this from someone I don't know: >B> Err, David-- we both own MZ-R3 portables 3+ years old. Do you >B> really think an ATRAC chip running at 4x the speed of the one in our >B> R3's would be difficult to make. Okay they may now use ATRAC 4.5 or >You're dealing in conditionals, Gareth, while Gary and I were dealing in in- >dicatives. Whether such a chip is already present in units that are on the >market now, whether such a chip exists now, whether such a chip can be pro- The point is that the manufacturers are only going to make the chips just fast enough to do the job at hand. Why go to the extra expense of producing a DSP that has 4 times the required performance? Ahh, you say, so that pitch control can be made to play at faster speeds. My view is that that's a lot of expense to implement what is essentially a novelty feature. If PC processors are any kind of indication a doubling of performance demands over 10 times the cost, so to implement 300% (4x) speed increase ability would push the DSP cost to over 100 times what it currently is. -cb ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
