On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:31:55 -0500 (EST), JT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You tell me. I can get a decent MD recorder for much $40-50USD less, and
>> not have to pay as much for the media. What's a CF card cost these days
>> for a card with enough capacity to hold an hour or so worth of music? A
>> minidisc is about $1.20 to $1.50 per disc.
>
>I think you misunderstood what he was referring to.
>
>The Philips Expanium is a CD player that can read MP3s off CDRs. So, the
>media costs about $0.50 max for anywhere from 4 to 10 hours (depending on
>bitrate) of music.
You have to buy a computer, a CD burner, the Expanium, and some discs
just to start using it. Easily over $1000 for an entry-level machine,
closer to $2000 for a good system. At that point, 50 cents for 4-10 hours
of music (of inferior sound quality) is orders of magnitude more
expensive than MD. And you can't edit after you create, you can't record
from a Mic, and you can't take it with you.
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