From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Colin Blackburn wrote#
> # The reasons I have yet to get interested in MP3 players is that the link
> # with the computer is a pain and the storage is limited. Two things would
> # have to happen; the MP3 units would need to encode on the fly (as in ATRAC)
> # and the memory cards would have to be either huge and/or cheap. Maybe
> why not just have memory cards that are like MDs or CDs... i.e they hold 74
> or 80 minutes, you could then buy blank ones and encode your own CDs, or
> buy pre-recorded ones.
> It'd be the solid-state equivalent of a MD machine.
Is this a joke? Where can you get a 64MB memory-card for about 2US$?
I can get a minidisc which stores 150MB of audio for less than that!
Pls don't say you use the Rio as I will really consider you a sad sad guy.
Cheers,
PrinceGaz -> solid with MDiscs, until chips are cheaper. Funny how chips will
always "replace discs" but never do. In twenty plus years. I've lost count of how
many chip technologies would make spinning drives obsolete :-P
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