Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: sosman@terratron.com (Steven Osman) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: mp3 on yaroze.... Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 04:47:21 GMT Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 39 Message-ID: <382360c0.221043974@news.playstation.co.uk> References: <7v2toh$6s1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v4171$6kf1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v7481$f4p1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38197cd9.204929122@news.playstation.co.uk> <7vbsj3$7l1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.27.57.69 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:22:01 +0000, Tony Ross wrote: >It amazes me that console manufacturers are not tapping into things like >playing mp3. I disagree. Consoles are standalone machines. How are you going to get MP3s in there? If you required people burned them to CD, you're already eliminating 98% of your potential customers. Of the 2% who would spend money on a CDR, 50% are probably techno-freaks and would buy something cool and portable like a diamond rio. Now you're left with 1% of the would-be mp3 market. Hope you make a tonne of profit on each one! >I know that the Saturn could show Kodak Photo CD's but you had to buy >extra software and PCD is very expensive. You could create your own >disc with GIF's or whatever on the cheap and play them on any TV using >your console. This should be fairly easy to implement. Same here. > >The same goes for MP3 (Imagine a 100 song CD). Consoles are poor for >playing cd's (even apart from quality considerations) since it is >quicker to play one on your CD player but the convenience of a 100 track >music source would be tempting to all of us with a CD burner and an >interest in mp3. I'm sure that CD player manufacturers are looking into >this also. Sod minidisc as a smaller solution for music, with mp3's we >could bring back the 3" CD (& CDR & CDRW) > >Hey....I bet not even Ron Manager could go off at as big a tangent as >me. >Oh it's a far cry from small boys in the park, mp3 players for goal- >posts.......oh......enduring image isn't it......oh...... >