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Alistair George wrote:
>
> I agree it is sheer stupidity to attempt to lock out a vast audience from a
> standard such as this. Philips in the 80's made a huge blunder by making
> their video recording standard proprietry. It was streets ahead of VHS and
> Beta (played/recorded both sides of the tape and had dynamic tracking and
> better audio). As a result we end up with an inferior system because the
> Japanese refused to pay Philips royalties.
Can anyone say MINIDISC!!
pro: small, lighweight, sounds as good as a CD*, can't scratch it
easily, cheap, re-recordable, built in copy protection, etc
cons: sony.
Others make them now - and Sony is pushing it a bit more, but its a
format that SHOULD do well, both for the CD people and the tape people
(tho not for the DAT people - uses compression), but Sony screwed it up
way back....
N - happy owner of a MD recorder.
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