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* Andrew Hobgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 23 Jul 1999
| Very true... the only issue is that as soon as you try to store data in an
| analog format, you have to worry about A) physically moving parts that are
| very sensitive (like phonograph
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* Ralf Kuchenhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 23 Jul 1999
| Is this a new one? The Maxell Gold discs I know only have a gold case,
| the disc is silver.
Possibly. The cases are black plastic with gold lettering and a window
that lets you see a
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Sound on Sound has an article on this subject:
URL:http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/feb99/html/sosxtlk.htm
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* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 26 Jul 1999
| Don't forget that the 55 also lost the best thing about the 50 -- the jog
| dial! :-) Seriously, though, I don't know how people can title tracks
| without a jog dial.
Ya know, I never much
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* Magnus Strandh [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 27 Jul 1999
| I am looking for a portable MD recorder to replace my stolen Walkman.
Good for you.
| Since I will mainly record my MDs from my home CD player (Arcam Alpha
| One), which has NO optical
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* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 27 Jul 1999
| But when it comes to titling, I always switch the disc to my MZR-50
| because of the jog dial. I guess it's because I'm impatient, and the jog
| dial allows me to fly between letters, etc. After
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* "meeder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 28 Jul 1999
| great discs and they are cheap, what more do you want? They are not the
| best looking discs available,
Which, when you get right down to it, is meaningless. I mean, who's going
to be looking at
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) on Sun, 01 Aug 1999
| I'm also glad to see people acknowledging the problem with using the same
| jack for line out and headphonesin portables. In my view, if you want it
| to be a true hi-fi device, a separate line out
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* LAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 02 Aug 1999
| Don't forget also thatyou can not make a digital copy of an MD from an MD
| copied digitally from a CD or other digital source, such as a DAT. So it
| seems that including the digital output would be
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* James Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 08 Aug 1999
| I recently bought a Sharp MD-MS702 MK.
Sharp has a generally bad reputation here, especially the 701/702 series.
Given my limited experience it is not a well-deserved rep. Take any flack
with
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Tamkin) on Mon, 09 Aug 1999
| Really? I had always heard that it was difficult enough to encode data
| in real time, and that was one of the constraints on ATRAC algorithms in
| real- time recorders.
The problem is
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* "Steven Brooks" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 11 Aug 1999
| Kinda reminds of the Microsoft Office 98's ability to self-diagnose and
| self repair. Imagine a MS MD player where the "splash screen" starts, (and
| probably in the results in test mode)
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 14 Aug 1999
| I'm new to the list and have a question about transferring CD - MP3
Well, this list is mainly about MiniDisc, not MP3, so you are probably
looking in the wrong place.
That said, remember that efficient !=
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* "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 14 Aug 1999
| one generation of digital copying. But more and more have been appearing
| in Europe that are set to prohibit even that one generation, and I
| wouldn't be surprised to see them here
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* Stainless Steel Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 15 Aug 1999
| purchase an audio CD) may make as many exact duplicates of that "origional"
I also cannot spell. That's "original" without a second "o" :).
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* "Colin Burchall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 16 Aug 1999
| You know what I really hate? When I make backups of my favourite CDs on
| minidiscs, and then accidentally lose those backups in my friends homes.
| I then have to make more backups and
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* Hannes Rohde [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 20 Aug 1999
| Now, that's a short concert!
Shortest rock show I attended was Green Day on the Boston Esplanade. 20
minutes or so and then the MDC pulled the plug.
| Another rule-of-thumb, though not
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* Jough Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 20 Aug 1999
| Well, most people are so used to video games and remote controls and other
| things that one has to control with their thumbs these days that RSI is
| hardly an issue.
I have both Saturn and
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* Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 23 Aug 1999
| But it's still like NZ$160 for a 16mb card, which is horrendously
| expensive.
I don't know what the exchange rate is, but in the US you are looking at
$30 for a 4MB stick, $40 for 8MB,
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 24 Aug 1999
| Have you considered the potential for something as small as memory stick for
| everyday use.
The thing of is we already have an industry standard for such a thing: it
is called compact flash (CF).
The one
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 24 Aug 1999
| the buffer is between 5-10 seconds. This sounds bassackwards to me;
| wouldn't the full 10 seconds of memory offer longer battery life than
| just, say, 5?
Nope. The power consumed by the player mechanism
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* "Scott Legg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 09 Sep 1999
| Is it safe to leave a unit in 'record mode' for any amount of time?
While it is in record mode, the recording head is "warm" and the laser is
operating at a higher power level than playback.
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Yesterday afternoon, while walking through Harvard Square, I walked past a
T (public transit) bus with a huge Sony/Tweeter ad touting MD as "virtually
unshockable". It depicted an MZ-R55 (or was in an E33? I do not know them
from each other on
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Sad.
The Best Buy at the Cambridgeside Galeria removed their MD section entirely
over the past week.
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* "Wei Zhang" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 24 Sep 1999
| What kind of educational background does he have ? He is very wrong. I work
| with people who have PhDs in audiology and engineers who have a sound
| educational background and experiments with
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| I gues somebody who stored his mail on minidisc and send it to MD-L?
Nah. Just the stupidity of a Reply-To header pointing at a mailing list
making it difficult to send a reply to the
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Sep 1999
| 2) I think it would be possible to store data on a audio disc using the
|analog interface.. Use two frequencies, one for '0' and one for '1'.
You do not remember the days when personal
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* Jeff Yerkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Sep 1999
| I got my Sharp 702 from the Good Guys in San Francisco. After a few
| hours, the red "REC" light died.
That is not a light, it is button made of translucent red plastic that just
looks like a
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* Hamish Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Sep 1999
| Can any one help? I have misplaced (lost) the remote for my MZR-30
| recorder, this is a real bummer as some of the unit buttons are not working
| as they should. Do any of the retailers
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I told myself I would not get involved with this here, but...
* Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 28 Sep 1999
| Most people I know prefer Debian over any other distro.
Most people you know like to micromanage their systems. Debian is very
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* Colin Burchall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Sep 1999
| Caldera's OpenLinux distribution is the easiest to install by far. Red Hat
| follows closely behind.
| So which is it? Easiest by far, or closely followed?
By far compared to all other
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* Mohit Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Sep 1999
| Thanks for information. Do you (or anyone) perchance know somewhere in
| the USA where I can find the Sony headphones?
You can try ordering directly from Sony, or check at your local Sony
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* "Ze'ev Maor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Sep 1999
| I'm planning on buying the Sony MZ-R37, however I've a lot lately about
| Sony releasing a high density MD format (650MB), is this true??
Sony's new 640MB magento-optical (MO) drive is a 3.5"
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* Simon Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 01 Oct 1999
| Does everyone agree ? Where did this idea come from ? Was I wrong about hard
| copy mail too ? Did I wake up on the wrong planet ?
Maybe you woke up on the wrong planet, but that is the case
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* Simon Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 04 Oct 1999
| but if someone tried to sue me for
| violating their copyright over an email quotation,
Nit-pick: international copyright law does not allow for suit, only to
order a cease and desist
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Stock headphones generally suck. You also never find stock circumaural
(they fit around the ear rather than sit on it) headphones.
I guess I'm a Sony fan when it comes to headphones. At home I use a set of
MDR-V600; they're a bit heavy, but they
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 08 Oct 1999
| Seriously, I have never managed to see the point in the Rio. It's basically
| an MD with no moving parts and no functionality, yet still manages to retain
| the high price point.
Umm... after rebate
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 10 Oct 1999
| It does? How very annoying... I thought it was just the PCI bus that was
| effected. I nthat case, could a similar problem be caused by an AGP card?
Anything that requires interrupts on a "PC
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This is not a copy protection issue. It appears that the first disc of the
Blue Öyster Cult "Workshop of the Telescopes" collection has the recording
level set just high enough to cause occasional "drop-outs" in the digital
MD copy. This happens
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David W. Tamkin) on Mon, 11 Oct 1999
| That doesn't compute. The CD player should still be putting out a digital
| signal, just as it does between tracks or during caesuras.
I know. That is what has me baffled. It makes no
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* "Sciamano Nerazzurro" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Oct 1999
| The problem is that my burner (HP7200i)
Say no more. The 7200 series has chronic overheating problems, especially
the external units (no fan or not a sufficiently large fan). I
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 11 Oct 1999
| If this is the same release of the album I have (Columbia label -
| 480949-2) it's not a volume issue.
Nope. It is a 2-disc set, Columbia/Legacy C2K-64163. So I'm still not
absolutely certain it is
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* Geoffrey Goode [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 12 Oct 1999
| But not for reading CDs'. For broadcast work you preferably go for
| three laser readers as if they are slightly askew, low reflectivity,
| etc. they will still read, whereas single lasers
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 13 Oct 1999
| You can't have a digital source that loud because the absolute highest
| amplitude you can store is 0dB.
My understanding of it is that "0dB" is actually "infinity - 0dB", where
"infinity" is the
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 13 Oct 1999
| If the front laser becomes mis-focused the head assembly moves vertically
| keeping the main read head a fixed distance from the CD at all times. The
| three laser system also allows slight horizontal
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 14 Oct 1999
| The peak amplitude is 0dB.
"Infinity" -0dB.
| There is no possibility of you ever going over 0dB because that would be
| a clipped signal already.
If "infinity" on unit A is higher than "infinity"
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* Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 14 Oct 1999
| No, the LSB gets dropped and you still end up with a signal that will not
| overflow the register. All that happens is you lose the extra 1 bit
| resolution from the LSB end.
And this is
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 15 Oct 1999
| I do agree that the *source* cant really have a "clipped" signal signal
| (well it can - but it should also sound clipped in analog mode as well)...
But not if the record level is set low enough that it
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* "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 21 Oct 1999
| But, why the heck are you running EMM386 in this day and age? I thought
| it was long gone the way of DOS.
Take a look under the hood of Windows 95/98 some time and you will find
MS-Windows 4.x
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* Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 25 Oct 1999
| What marketing manager do you know that would cut a company's product
| line just when it was reaching its stride? And do so, no less, on
| account of their *hope* for an upcoming format's
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My recomendation is for the MZ-R37. It has a lot going for it. The R55 is
a nice and small unit, but it suffers from very short battery life.
I like my MS-702 as well. It has supplanted my MZ-R30 as the carry unit of
choice for me. The
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* " nick " [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 04 Nov 1999
| At the least, its a fair competitor to MD, *sort of* making up for sound
| quality and limited storage space. Size-wise, its pretty crap, its the size
| of a mini laptop..
One of which I own
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* Antilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 Nov 1999
| Hello,
| Can anyone tell me where I can find the
| Lithium(Lip-12) Battery for the Sony MZ-R3?
You should be able to order it directly from Sony or through your local
Sony service center if you
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* "Rick Pali" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 25 Nov 1999
| Is the MP3 format proprietary or is it available for anyone to use without
| charge?
MP3 is not a format, per se. "MP3" is actually MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio. That
is, it is one of the audio
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* Jonas Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 25 Nov 1999
| Is there a way that I can connect my soundcard's SPDIF out to the optical
| input of a MD without any coverters (except a different cable)?
No. Your coaxial outputs are eletrical, fibre
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* "Julien Blaise (E-coli)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 27 Nov 1999
| I just want to know if there is a difference of quality of the digital
| out between different CDROMs, because my CDROM is a 8X Goldstar
| (GCD-R580B) and perhaps it would be better
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* "Magic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 28 Nov 1999
| Not quite true, Rat. The digital output is not always 100% identical. If
| you rip the data from a CD at a higher speed rather than play the CD, the
| error correction method becomes less reliable
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 30 Nov 1999
| My computer is a laptop with 2 PC card slots (one of which is being used for
| my modem.) Is there a PC card I can buy that will allow me to record my MP3
| files onto minidisc? If so, where would I get
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* "Guy Churchill" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 01 Dec 1999
| http://www.pioneer.co.jp/press/release63.html
| Not a direct threat to MD yet
Ever. MD is not about audio quality, it is about portability. DVD will
never be as portable as MD is.
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* Keith Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 02 Dec 1999
| Check the url above, looks like Amstrad are buying into this MD world in
| which we live! Not a bad implementation of the 701 either!
Neat!
But if Sharp is OEMing the portable recorder it is
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* Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 02 Dec 1999
| What about MD sized DVD discs, I remember seeing 3" cds that held like
| 15mins of audio (some singles came out on this), DVD at that size should
| be able to hold at least 640mb, cd
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* Kade Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 02 Dec 1999
| Isn't that an oxymoron? Isn't "impossibility" a synonym.
More like, "so unlikely as not to be worth considering at this time," which
does not mean "impossible".
| At any rate, I disagree.
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* Kade Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 02 Dec 1999
| But that ain't what you said. You said "non-existant possibility" =
| "absence of possibility". "Unlikely" means "very little possibility", not
| "absence of possibility".
This is what I
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 03 Dec 1999
| For me that's near CD quality audio on a very portable media. We could
| almost say that the audio quality isn't sacrified at all.
So, given the premise that you are hard-pressed to
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My recorders: Sony MZ-R30, Sharp MD-MS702mk, always using a digital link
with both. Playback is primarilly with high-end Sony earbuds (same buds
with both recorders). Honestly, the difference between the two is
negligible. I expect that few will
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* Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 05 Dec 1999
| Seriously, though, the Sony earbuds are definitely the weak link in the
| comparison.
No question about that, but for me they are much more comfortable to wear
around than my SR-60s :). Anyway,
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* "Jake Hamby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 06 Dec 1999
| Of course.. but, at least for me, part of what makes listening to music
| enjoyable is hearing the subtle harmonics of real acoustic instruments,
| played by real humans, in the natural reverb
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* "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 08 Dec 1999
| My question is, how do I title the tracks on the CDR? There must be a
| way.
Nope. CD-Audio does not include space for titles, just audio data.
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* "Martin Schiff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 08 Dec 1999
| And Sharp portables have a manually adjustable record level control where
| the Sony portables do not.
Sony portables do have manually adjustable record level controls (at least
my R30
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* Mark Derricutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 09 Dec 1999
| Actually, there is the CD-TEXT format, which stores track names/album name
| in the TOC of the CD.
And, as others have already mentioned, most CD and CD-ROM players will barf
on CD-TEXT
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* Ralph Smeets [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 09 Dec 1999
| But you have to stop/pause the recording if you want to adjust the level. It
| can't be done on the fly like on a home-deck or on a Sharp porti
I did not say that it was good, only that it
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* "Matt Vukin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 09 Dec 1999
| Many of my newer mp3s are encoded at 96kbps. I have read that this is
| "near cd quality" for an mp3.
Are you sure you do not mean 196K/s? Anyway, MPEG1 Layer III tops out at
~360K/s at
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* "Shawn R. Lin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 10 Dec 1999
| No CD players/writes "barf" on CD-Text encoded CDs as someone mistakenly
| noted.
I was under the impression that a CD-DA player without CD-Text capability
(which is almost all of them right
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* Ray West [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 14 Dec 1999
| Just a note, which can save you some grief.
| Be aware if you're using Nicads or NiMH rechargeable batteries (both have a
| nominal cell voltage of 1.2V). Nicads tend to have a memory effect,
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* " nick " [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 15 Dec 1999
| Someone just mentioned this, and its got me wondering - Whats the deal with
| portable DVD? Why would you pay that much for a DVD player+screen combo when
| you can get a reasonable sized TV, a
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* Kevin Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 19 Dec 1999
| I'm looking for a cheap solution for a cd player deck or portable that
| _WILL_ play cd-rw and cd-r that has a optical output as well.
Pick one:
Optical Output
Inexpensive
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* "Ian McFarlane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 17 Dec 1999
| Thats correct, the folks in Canada now TAX BLANK MINIDISCS! On top of =
| MDs, they also tax things like CD-R's and blank audio tapes. Head to =
| http://www.erzone.net for the full
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 23 Dec 1999
| Has anyone every encountered any problems using a Sharp 702's optical in
| when making a recording? Lately I've been toying with it and occasionally,
| during the first 15-25 seconds of the first song I
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* "Ian McFarlane" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 24 Dec 1999
| To put it in a sentence, these are probably the best sounding headphones
| that you can buy.
That's misleading. The 888 ear buds are better than average ear buds, but
my Grado SR-60
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* "Tony Antoniou" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 24 Dec 1999
| Don't start getting personal because you obviously have forgotten that
| beauty is in the eye of the beholder and same rule applies to sound,
| although it is now in the EAR of the beholder.
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* "PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 24 Dec 1999
| Strictly speaking, that is true but there is some copyrighted material which
| is never going to make the author, publisher or any other interested party
| any significant cash and which on the
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* Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 25 Dec 1999
| If you choose to believe that the laws as purchased by the recording
| industry from congress represent ethics, enjoy your world.
You obviously feel strongly about this, but are somewhat misinformed.
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* " nick " [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| None of the discs have been exposed to strong magnetic fields, or anything
| that could be potentially damaging.
Strong magnetic fields will not damage MiniDiscs.
Sounds like there is a problem
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* "PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| Nobody is hurt if you weren't gonna buy the material anyway. Indeed you're
| helping all the peeps who work for blank media manufacturers [Gaz thinks
| this is a intenable position to maintain
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* Ray West [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| The fundamental cause of this problem, if it is a problem, is seated much
| deeper than this. The 'popular' performers are generally speaking paid far,
| far more than they are worth, when compared
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* "PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| By copying stuff you would never have bought I would say you are harming
| none.
If you would never have bought it in the first place, you have no legal or
moral right to make a copy from
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* "PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| wot are all those guys in the blank disc / tape factories gonna do if we
| stop buying blanks. Do you wanna put em all out of a job? You would of
| course cos I bet at least 90% of blank MDs
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* Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Dec 1999
| The core of United Staes copyright law is the Constitution, laid down
| by our founding fathers. You perhaps do not understand the AHRA or
| the United States Constitution. See below.
All of which
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* Stainless Steel Rat [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| All of which was superceded by the Copyright Act of 1976, better known
| internationally as the Berne Agreements, which is explicitly clear as to
| what you are allowed to copy
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* "J. Coon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or
^^^
| medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical
| recordings.
That one
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* "Jeffrey E. Salzberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| Here, anyone has the right to proclaim to the world that s/he is a
| thief.
I love this guy :).
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* David Fincher [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| With all the discussion about copyright, I have a related question that
| I'd like some illumination on. If I have my own copy of a cassette, and
| the cassette is now defective (eaten by a
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* goobster [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial
| use by a consumer of such a device or medium for
"use" means use, not distribution or redistribution.
'nuff said.
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* Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 28 Dec 1999
| I'm a lawyer. Magic's definition of "commercial" is silly. It is not
| commercial activity if I find a penny on the sidewalk. But really,
| that's just common sense isn't it? If you trade enough
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* "Sydtech" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 27 Dec 1999
| Pirates are what gives the record companies the cold sweats.
| True "tape traders" (or whatever the format) trade boots, NOT pirate copies
| of stuff that's available.
As I said before, I am not
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* Michael Hooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 31 Dec 1999
| first, i notice that the line level on the sharp has to be set much higher
| while recording than i would with the sony. i used the line in, with a
| battery box and sound pro mics, the same
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* "Martin Schiff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 01 Jan 2000
| I disagree. The line input with a battery box is much quieter than the mic
| input. My experience with the same mikes and recorder are better with the
| line in.
Hmmm... okay, then it might
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* Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 02 Jan 2000
| I got a phono-phono cable to record stuff from my computer to my
| Sony minidisc player. I plugged it into the back of my computer, in the
| same plug on my soundcard which I plug my speakers
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* Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 30 Dec 1999
| Nope, not here. It's legal to copy shows on your VCR or other
| recording device hear. It's not legal to unscramble the shows.
| Federal Copyright law, case law, time shifting. Sounds silly I
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* "PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 03 Jan 2000
| "PASCAL is a programming language named after a scientist who would turn in
| his grave if he knew anything about it!". And I agree with that view.
| Pascal sucks when compared to C and its
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