Although I agree that mp3 is inferior, don't forget we are talking
about Sony here. I still have my original top loading betamax and
with proper maintance, it still beats vhs and super-vhs anyway when
put side by side... But, while it is better, it lost the fight.
VHS was cheaper, and alot of people who didn't care about quality
bought into it (gee, sound familure). Yes, I'm also a Macintosh
user and programer. I don't want to drudge that battle up either
but they are now recognizing that they have to get off their ass
if they want to stay in the fight before they are dead.
Sony needs a wake up call. There are a number of applications that
MD has, that cannot be done on mp3, and the quality is well beyond.
Sony did develop MD2 for their digital video camera, but it has a much
better chance of survival, if they expand it to a new breed of MD
recorder/player that would be backwards compatible. Make a DataDrive version
and an encoder for the computer and you've fixed the speed of download.
They're already doing the encoders for their atrac3 memorstick applications
so this would not be a difficult transition. The question now comes,
Does Sony want this format to survive.
I really hope the answer is yes!
-Jeffrey
--
The day MS makes something that doesn't suck
will be the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
On 23 Jan 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
> Why? I mean, MP3 audio is inferior to MD as far as quality is concerned,
> even at the highest coding rates. Going from CD to MP3 to MD is just plain
> stupid if you ask me.
>
> Now, a faster means of dumping CD-DA tracks to MD would certainly be
> desirable.
> --
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