Re: MD: Sony's new Mini Disk technology

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From: Tad Perry
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:04

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In article <1993Jan12.010042.20828@wam.umd.edu> warren@wam.umd.edu (the stupid one) writes:
>thus quoth dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
> The next question is that of capacity.  If the MD player is at CD
> quality, it will record at about 44,000 16-bit samples per second.  I
> believe the time-limit of a MD is 74 minutes.  This yields 44,000 x 74
> x 60 = 195360000 or 186MW or 372MB.  This is unformatted, of course.
>
>*2 for stereo BUT
>they use a lossy compression method to reduce the data to 8 bits
>so this is correct
>
>but we already have rewritable magneto-optical media for PC's

True, but the benefits of mass production are going to aid price
decreases for the MD much more than they will ever be able to aid
magneto-optical media, just from the fact that it's mainly a digital
audio systems designed for home electronics.  If they start selling
all over the place, and it seems they might, you can kiss
magneto-optical goodbye.

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