well i'm glad i was able to give you some entertainment at work.
Cheers!
Rubbish. I'll reply when I get a chance today.
either type something meaningful or nothing at all. "nothing", without any reasons, isn't really a decent rebuttal. also, stay true to your word and take the time to reply, rather than copping out.
Armen, I'm gonna chime in here because this is in the context of my broader post - he did reply later, effectively agreeing with everything I wrote: "Thanks, Brian - you saved me a lot of time!" Posting to indicate a forthcoming message is neither a copout (given he agreed with my post and stated as such) nor intended as a rebuttal.
Bah. Who needs a 650MB disc when you can have a massive HD?!?
fair point. but what i was getting at was MD replacing small capacity storage devices, like floppy disc drives. i probably should have said this.
Ahhhh...gotcha. Well, I also think MD won't replace in this context, either. Flash/memory cards will, however. They're already damn cheap, and they can already be used in portable devices like PDAs. Just a question of time til the HD devices support expansion packs which allow interfacing with flash/memory cards as well.
i was kind of thinking about so far into the future that downloading a WAV file, with an 'average' internet connection, will be faster than it is to download an MP3 today. thus, IMO, MP3 will be supersueded by uncompressed music; and it will be the mainstream internet music format, not just something that concerns tapers.
Well...since MP3s are smaller file sizes, they'll always download faster, so WAVs will never be faster, even with super fast internet speeds. What will happen, though, is the relative time to download will become less of an issue - the ratio will remain the same, but the units of time will become small enough that it won't necessarily be advantageous to download MP3 over WAV (unless you don't care and want to save HD space so you can fit 3 gazillion songs on your monster HD).
i was merely speaking HYPOTHETICALLY, trying to explain why i want minidisc to succeed. i am not deranged, i do not believe that MDs will take over the world.
I know, no offense intended, apologies if it came off that way.
i think possibly the point i was arguing was misunderstood.
Definitely. Thanks for clarifying.
one day i will embrace HD... when they start making live recordings a standard feature, when they stop making the JB3 look like a friggin discman, when they stop crapping on about bloody MP3s and WMAs.
Agreed!! I, too, don't understand why they made the JB3 in its current discmanesque form. Totally dufus. We're still a little ways off from effective HD recorders, though the JB3 seems a pretty good start for affordable, consumer recording, including WAVs - goodbye MP3 and WMA!