Re: MD Issues contd.

[Tiktok <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

Title: Re: MD Issues contd.

Oh, I don't know about that.  I believe MD's only hold 140MB of data, which would translate to about fourteen minutes of CD-quality stereo soun, so there's no way it was going to be the threat to CD sales that CD-R's and mp3 later became.    I think it's more likely that MD was conceived as a replacement for cassettes with most of the features people enjoyed from CDs rather than a compression scheme was added in to keep the RIAA out of the poorhouse.  

I do remember a story that the initial length of CDs was based upon what it would take to fit Beethoven's Ninth Symphony [sometimes regarded as the greatest piece of music ever] on one disk.

TH
> From: Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com
> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:50:35 -0500
> To: Loopers-Delight-d@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V01 #152
>
> Isn't it possible that the same old "they'll steal from us!" credo was put
> into effect, such that perhaps if the unit was capable of only recording 68
> minutes, but had CD-quality sound, it wouldn't be allowed into the US
> (according to all-too-familiar RIAA scare tactics used in the past on every
> other recording medium introduced since the Compact Cassette)?  Perhaps Sony
> blanched and actually believed their paranoid rantings, not thinking that
        anyone in the US would jump to their defence.