On 6 Mar 2000, Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
Hi,
Don't want to stop an interesting thread, but...
> [...]
> | Yeh but you don't want to emulate an ATRAC chip, you wana encode data to
> | ATRAC standard natively on a PC using a PC processor & software taking
> | advantage of chip specific features.
>
> Yes, and that requires many fast fourier transformations (FFTs) per second,
> which as I said before are slow on general purpose processors. ATRAC 4 in
> real time is just not going to happen on the desktop for a while for that
> reason.
I guess Sony is never letting this to happen. I mean, to provide
specifications in order to implement such a encoder. Neither Sony or
others, I'd swear.
You're missing another point: I guess that if you send data at
2X/3X/4X to the MD, it will have to spin faster while recording; that
implies greater power consumptions, and higher accuracy, so modifications
to the MD hardware must be done anyway, and a standalone device won't be
very practical without a specific MD device that could handle this. And
forget about having that in portables without prohibitively rising its
price...
So the point, being realistic is: When are vendors going to
provide a MD that could take USB data and encode it at the fastest speeds
that MD laser circuitry/servos etc. and the ATRAC ASICs could handle?
I also think that the best market positioning for it will be an
standalone, for-PC-users-intended MD deck. Something like the MDS-PC1...
greets,
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