Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!tjs From: tjs@cs.monash.edu.au (Toby Sargeant) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Playstation 2 details Date: 27 Sep 1998 22:59:49 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <6uf42g$ja93@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <1dfwn22.a7u8a0bydajoN@a1-88-115.a1.nl> <360B4B18.78B1@mdx.ac.uk> <360B6890.B28C6C76@scee.sony.co.uk> <360BB179.403B@writeme.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longford.cs.monash.edu.au X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.4.3 UNIX) On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 16:06:33 +0100, James Rutherford wrote: >James Russell wrote: > >> o Instead of Memory Cards, miniDiscs. > >You know, that's a damn good idea. > >Imagine knocking up a few Fluid riffs or using Codie's new sequencer and >being able to save /direct/ to minidisc - coo! Does anyone have any idea what kind of storage capacity a minidisc _really_ has? Given that when they're used to store music, they're using lossy compression, which really isn't good for digital data, they'd make a pretty poor substitute for memory cards in their current configuration. What kind of media is it, also? MO, or just plain magnetic media? Toby.