chaulsr wrote:
> There is nothing wrong with MD, nor MP3, IMO. What's gonna change is the
>good old CD. Take a look at the market, we now have MD recorder, MP3 recorder, and
>even CD recorder,
I'm not aware of any portable MP3 or CD records. There are internal and external CD
writers, but they depend upon a computer and can not record from a microphone or even
a audio out jack.
MP3 only has players. You have to have a computer and transfer the MP3 files to the
player. You can't plug in an analog or digital PCM signal (like from a portable CD
player) and have the player record it.
All that MP3 players do is store MP3 files (like your digital camera stores jpg
(except the camera can capture the picture and the player can only accept MP3 files
that are already compressed.
The the MP3 player has a decoder so that you can listen to music either on a stereo or
headphones. Nothing more.
> these allows us to make comparable or even exact copies of the original. Look at the
>number of solid states player, it pump up in the past year, one can blame the cheap
>memory price.
You can make copies, but you can't record like you can with MD. Also, I'm concerned
that certain, if not all, brands of CDRs will deteriorate over time. I just don't
trust anything that starts out one shade of blue and ends up another.
The MD has a long track record of not failing.
> But even big company like Sony, Panasonic join the battle of solid state players,
>Philips is going to release a mini-CD MP3 player, don't they have portable CD/MD
>players, won't they be competiting with their own?!
I've never seen a portable CD/MD player. The smallest I know of is a bookshelf unit.
Did you mean portable CD/MP3 player (using a home made CDR or CDRW from which you
copied files).
> On the other hand, labels are putting copy protection in the good old CD, which
>intents to stop peoples from ripping the CD on their PCs. Try to search "copy
>protected cd" in yahoo and see how many hits..
>
> My theory is that hardware manufacturers got new Hi-Res formats, how are they going
>to complete with another good old format exists 2 decades. The best solution is to
>kill it.. A big move is to make every single PC in the world equipped with a
>CDROM/DVDROM capable of ripping the track out, do it whatever the user like.. this
>may post a big thread to the record labels, they may eventually move to the new
>formats which are copy protected, hard to break in our average technologies.. which
>may lead to boost to the sales of the new hardwares..
If the high res battle is anything like HDTV, you won't see a standard for 10 years!
Actually the problem with HDTV was not just competing designs. The FCC put certain
restrictions on them and it took 10 years settle that.
LAS
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