I had an idea, and this seems like a good list to air it in.
Some time ago I got a Sony cordless-phone-and-answering-machine unit. The
answering machine is digital, and its sound fidelity isn't great, so I'm
inferring that it uses some kind of audio compression to save memory. My
grandfather is almost unintelligible on the machine, because for some reason
his voice doesn't get along with the compression. I wondered what
compression it uses, and could it use ATRAC? (It's a model SPP-A941, if
anybody might know what it does use.) The next logical step was: why not
have a MiniDisc answering machine?
It would be like the cassette-tape answering machines of old, but using a
MiniDisc to store the greeting and the messages. 74 minutes would be plenty
for messages, and with MDLP you could go for a month without erasing
messages. I know several people who lament the demise of tape-based
machines, because they used to have a few tapes handy with different
greetings: weekdays, weekends, vacations, etc. This could be done again with
MiniDiscs. Track one would be the greeting, and each successive track a
message..?
Anyone else think this'd work?
How about it, Sony?
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