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I dunno if price of an MD answering machine would be too big a deal if it
were part of a high-end digital cordless phone combo, you know the DECT type
phones.
Gaz.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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]>
> >
> > 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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