[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> A question on the everlasting "End Search" dispute:
>
> Scenario: I'm listening to a MD with a Sharp (or other than Sony brand)
> portable. I press 'stop' and the unit auto-shuts-off. After an hour or so I
> resume listening.
>
> Question: does the md start from where I stopped listening before (1) or
> does it start from the beginning again (2)?
>
> If the answer is (1), then I really don't understand the "End search" button
> on Sony portables. If the answer is (2), otherwise I can see the point.
It's (1)
> Explanation of my point of view: if a Sharp portables, in the descripted
> scenario, starts from the beginning again, then it's behaving like a Sony
> deck, right? My point of view is that maybe Sony believes that portables are
> mainly used for listening, and so it's a bit annoying to have to start
> listening to an MD from the beginning everytime you stop it for a while. So
> maybe they thought something like "since they will use it mainly for
> listening, we make portables capable of resuming the reproduction of the MD
> from the point the user stopped it, and if the user wants to record he/she
> just has to press 'End Search' in order to go to the end of the MD".
>
> Does this make (a little) sense?
Yes,
> Luca
> Milano, Italy
Ralph,
Grenoble, France
(How was that for a change!)
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