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Here's some points to consider:
If you've seen some mockups of the players, they're plasticky ugly things.
My Sharp MD-MS722 is an industrial art masterpiece. And how often do you
loose a quarter? What if that meant byebye to all of your music for the day?
-Rob
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From: "payvand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: MD: Dataplay Digital Format??
>
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > I was wondering how many others have heard of this new digital format
> > that is scheduled to begin marketing later this
> > year(www.dataplay.com)? I read an article today that indicated that it
> > was going to involve a disc that kind of appears to be like a
> > minidisc, but about the size of a quarter. The disc is supposed to be
> > used in multiple applications(audio, video, ebooks, etc.)and suposedly
> > holds 5 hours of "CD quality" sound on one disc. There are supposed to
> > be blanks that are recordable, but one time only. several major
> > players in the music industry are supposed to be backing this as a new
> > format for pre-recorded music, also. It sounds like a cross between
> > MP3 and MD. I don't know what the technology is that allows for this
> > much data to be stored on the disc.
>
> I think they're using different color lasers along with compression. blue
> lasers have a shorter warelength, and as such, they can read sectors that
> are closer to each other than red lasers (which most cd/dvd players use).
> Blue lasers are more expensive than red and I think that's limited their
> use.
>
> My lover told me something about this exact thing a while back. I think I
> remember something about them having 500meg of space.
>
> > Obviously, if this is successful, it is a threat to MD as an ongoing
> > format. I'm concerned because, at least from what I've been able to
> > ascertain, it will not have the flexibility in terms of editing and
> > reuse that MDs have. I'm also wondering about sound quality.
>
> I don't think we need to worry. Obviously, other digital/optical formats
> are going to be out there as we move into the future, but MD has been
> around for too long. And MD is not one-time record, let's not forget that.
> Still, this new stuff is a cool thing. I have a feeling they'll make some
> kind of portable thing for kids with it. Toys, or maybe players targeted
> to the teen market.
>
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