I apologise for continuing the ES debate, but I've only just now had a
chance to read the Stateside posts. I promise that this will be my last
(public) post on this thread....
Shawn Lin wrote in reply to my earlier post:
| I think you're wrong. People call what Sharp and Sony home
| decks do an
| "automatic end search", but really, it is an *absence* of a "last
| position memory". Since MD is a random-access technology, anytime the
| disc is stopped, the laser sled is stopped and the last position is
| "forgotten". An MD portable with End Search adds the
| "feature" (or IMO, "mis-feature") of remembering the last position. So
when one presses
| REC without End Search first, the deck moves the laser sled
| to the last remembered position. It actually takes EXTRA processing
overhead to implement the
| End Search.
Wasn't that my very point? So Sony concluded the user would only choose to
ES when it was absolutely essential to keep previously recorded material
intact, thus generally making (slight) power savings overall.
| so they slapped in extra software to simulate a cassette tape so that the
MD
| will feel like a cassette to those people.
Yes, but that assumes that most people who use portable tape recorders will
want to overwrite what they previously recorded AS A DEFAULT. This equates
to rewinding the tape to the beginning, rather than simply recording from
where you left off. My personal experience of this 'daily' type of tape
recording is that you usually record from where you finished, unless it's
obvious that you don't have enough space on the tape (in which case you may
THEN decide to either rewind or use another tape). Even if you have played
back what you previously recorded, you will probably generally stop the tape
at the end of the recorded section, ready for a new recording.
Thus, my argument would be that it is the Sharps & the Sony decks which
behave MORE like tape machines, if you wish to make such an analogy.
I do agree though, that perhaps Sony thought it could apply to a situation
where tape users (eg. reporters) have access to a pool of previously
recorded 'old' tapes that are available for reuse and have been rewound to
the beginning.
Note to Shawn: If you want to continue the discussion, I suggest we do it
via private mail to avoid us getting kicked off the board ;-)
John.
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