Let me apologize first, cause it's all in Japanese. I'm not good enough in Japanese to precisely translate everything, so I'll just give a rough idea. I first saw the quotes on this page: http://page.freett.com/Tfactory/Audio/MDqual/ATRAC1.html the page itself is arguing about how blanks make a difference, etc, but anyway. The quote - "MD's got to be inferior in sound quality" - came from page 276 of the book mentioned below. The details: 1. Sony had the technology for CD-R back in 1987, but Norio Ohga came to the conclusion that CD-R would upset the record industry. Therefore MD's got to have worse sound quality than CD. 2. The man who designed the MZ-1 said that Ohga ordered the unit to be released early because of competition with DCC, even if that meant the MZ-1 wasn't a fully developed product. The book is one of those business/management type books, featuring interviews with 14 people who work at Sony. It was published in 1998. The title translates roughly to "Sony's laws" (laws as in, for instance, Murphy's laws). See the cover of the book on the publisher's website: http://skygarden.shogakukan.co.jp/skygarden/owa/sosbooks_isbn?e_id=3066460&i d=416111 >> Norio Ohga, the (ex) Sony President who pushed for MD's creation, said >> openly in publications that MD has sound degradations for political reasons >> (or CD-R/RW music would've come out much earlier). But in your situation, it >> should be almost indistinguishable. > > Oooh, I'd love to have a reference for the article (or indeed the > article!) in which he makes this statement. I've known that this > aspect of MD is informally recognized by Sony as valuable, but I > didn't know that Sony had made it public. > > Rick Norio Ohga has achieved quite a bit at Sony. However, he got really bummed late in his career because of the DVD format competition. Sony's DVD specification lost out to Toshiba's (the current one we're all using). The "Digital Dream Kids" slogan was actually the start of the post-Ohga era at Sony, the beginning of a corporate transformation. Leon ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
