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David, dream on. While it is possible that one or two of the minor things you
would like to see might happen, I don't think that you are going to see most of
them.
Larry
David Smith wrote:
> If MD is to survive as a format, I think it's essential that it offers some
> of the features becoming commonly available. It's good to see ATRAC bitrates
> are becoming scalable - something MP3 has always had. For the spoken word,
> high bitrate stereo is unnecessary.
>
> I think MP3 at comparable bitrates to ATRAC offers similar audio quality.
>
> LP2 and LP4 is nice but it may be too little, too late.
>
> I'd like to see a MD that has these features:
> High disk capacity. 640Mb maybe, backwardly compatible with the current
> 140Mb.
> Multiple codecs in flash memory so they can be upgraded when necessary.
> Provision for codecs to be loaded automatically from disk so disks would not
> be dependent on codecs already in the player.
> USB interface.
>
> Capacities of some low bitrate codecs suitable for speech on a 140Mb disk
> are:
> Voxware RT24 at 8kHz Mono, at 300 bytes/sec - about 135 hours.
> ACELP at 8kHz Mono, at 605 bytes/sec - about 67 hours.
> ACELP at 11kHz Mono, at 1110 bytes/sec - about 35 hours.
> MP3 at 16kbps Mono - about 20 hours.
>
> David Smith
> http://www.powerup.com.au/~dssmith
>
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