> I was really into MiniDisc until I went to the Switzerland Web Site
> and its
> seems that every player had problems with it and eventually whether
> it takes
> 1 month or 1 year, the player shuts down.
Like someone said. How many people are gonna say "Yeah, my unit works
great!" You know, I got this leather wallet for my birthday and it's
still doin it's job. That little piece of plastic with my picture on it
that allows me to drive, well, I can still drive.
> I talked to a guy I knew
> and he
> said MiniDisc is on its way out and MP3 is on its way in. He said
> in never
> shocks because it has no moving parts.
Ummmm...I think onetime we figured out how much it would cost to do the
equivilent on MD and MP3 and it would cost over $1000 to get the storage
space and quality you get from a portable and one disc.
This sounds great, and also
> it will
> last 15 hours regardless of what you're doing. It has the same kind
> of
> features (being able to record from computer, computer, microphone)
> as the MD
> player, and the slots can hold a lot more memory on it. It seems
> upgradable.
Yes, for a price.
MP3's take up room, face it. Compared to what we CAN do with much better
quality, MP3's are just a waste of space and smartmedia and compactflash
cards ARE NOT cheap (I just spent $80 for a 16MB Compact Flash card for
use in my digital camera.) Also, theres only 2 portable MP3 units that
record. The Rio does not have this. Nor does they Lyra.
To get 74 minutes on a MP3 player you'd need to balence bitrate and card
size (well duh) but that not the point I'm making. Largest cards that
exist are 128MB (largest compact flash I've seen, there MIGHT be a 256)
and thats at 192kbps. But, who wants to spend $300 for a friggin memory
card. It's about $600 total for the Rio while you can get a MD portable
and some discs for $300. Hrmmmmmm............, I wonder. Not only do
MP3's sound bad but, to fit a whole CD I'd have to spend close to $300.
I've barely spent $150 on blank MD's and I have 24 albums and like, 7
MD's of mixes.
One other thing. MP3 is way to overmarked to the point it's stupid. Have
any of you seen Samsungs new digital camera. It's only VGA resolution but
has a built in MP3 player and it's only like, $289. I paid like $250 for
my megapixel Kodak even though it doesn't include the MP3 playback (like
I'd want it anyway)
> I just dont want to shell out $250 and have it be obselte in a
> couple of
> years.
Nothing ever becomes obselite, it just becomes rare or hard to find. Like
Beta. I still use beta. Hell, I just bought South Park, Bigger, Longer &
Uncut on Beta. They're still making it, it's just harder to find. Even if
it dies down in the US (which I don't think it ever really will, it's
lasted this long aganist DAT and DCC and so far CD-R for Comsumer. Even
if it does, it has strong ties in other countries. Thank god for the
internet!
MD is not going out, in fact, in some ways, it's just getting started.
-J.R.
P.S. (BTW, if anyone was wondering where I did my calculations for the
MP3 stuff. I wrote an application (purposly NOT trying to plug) if you
want it: http://www.crosswinds.net/~moshchat/dewdude/audiocalc.zip
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