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But this guy's right. While MP sound quality is inferior, it is obvious
that there is a great interest in this type of technology - and that sound
quality is obviously not a real limiting factor for the mass consumer
audience.
MD needs to reposition itself as "the hard drive for your MP3s." This type
of positioning will keep it relevant as a storage medium -- and position it
as COMPLIMENTARY technology to MP3, not competing. I mean, who cares about
ATRAC vs. MP3? This should not be a competition. Also, the added
advantage, then, is that portable MDs can RECORD, while portable MP3 units
currently cannot.
I think SONY should be a bit stronger in marketing the MD with all the MP3
hype growing so rapidly.
Jon Deutsch
http://theopinion.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stainless Steel Rat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:12 AM
> To: MD-L
> Subject: Re: MD: Will MD Survive?
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> * "Lou Paris Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 23 Jan 2000
> | I think if Sony wants MD to live in the "Internet Age" they
> need to make a
> | unit with USB support that can take a MP3 data stream and
> do high speed
> | (4x-12x) data dumps. With some of the new products I have
> researched on in
> | the MP3 world I might have made a bad decision going back to MD.
>
> 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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