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ya know that's one of the best ideas i've heard around here in a long time,
only real problem would be cost, i'm not sure how many people wanna pay over
$100 for an answering machine just because it's MD, but it is a cool idea.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Rudie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:57 PM
Subject: MD: New MD-using product?
>
> 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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