Hi guys, [warning: inflamatory content]
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the End Search feature which
is provided on Sony MD portables. The problem is that some people
forget how their MD unit records and as a result overwrite existing
material.
These people always try to blame their own stupidity on Sony's End
Search feature, which is rather like me blaming my VCR for not winding
to the end of the first film I recorded when I do a second without
finding the correct position.
I can already hear the screams and flames approaching but I'll press
on and give a defence.
How many times have we discussed on this list about how MD is a much
more convenient format than CD? I could not agree more! And we all
agree it's much more durable right? Well with it's plastic casing it
has to at least out-survive a CD.
The other format is CC, or MC as they are often now called Compact
Cassette, lets just say "Tape". Now Tape is arguably as sturdy as MD
possibly more so in terms of being able to play "something" but we all
know the best metal-tape on a many-thousand-dollar deck would be
inferior to a recording made on a mid-range MD deck (lets say using
ATRAC 4.0, to give the tape buffs some room to manoeuver :-)
So I come back to the original point, End Search. It has repeatedly
been stated on this list that MD is not a replacement for CD, but a
replacement for Tape. That being the case while home units will most
likely be used to copy CDs etc, portable recorders are going to be
treated more like portable tape machines by most people and the "End
Search" that so many peeps here dislike may actually be an intuitive
action to wind to the end of the recording.
Indeed my own own portie the MZ-R3 has a nice 20-bar display running
along the base of the LCD display which shows the used disc area, and
current position. I dunno if this was dropped in later models but I
can easily see where in (logical) position I am. It's probably a bit
irrelevant to this discussion but it highlights how Sony wanted to
keep the digital format as transparent as possible.
So, may I be as bold to say that the End Search on Sony portables but
not on home decks is based directly on how the different units are
used, and not just some arbitrary decision or legacy policy.
Cheers,
I'll get my asbestos jacket!
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