Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: "Steve Spiller" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: mp3 on yaroze.... Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:59:20 -0800 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 39 Message-ID: <8076cp$j6n1@scea> 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> <382360c0.221043974@news.playstation.co.uk> <3825b192.180732249@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tide71.microsoft.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Man, I wish I could find the link... But, the other day I saw a news article about a company that is making a home MP3 player. It will be able to read up to 500 songs off of a standard CD(/R). It was pretty cool. Much easier than setting up a PC in the living room, and you get a remote control. :) -Steve "Steven Osman" wrote in message news:3825b192.180732249@news.playstation.co.uk... > On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:37:19 +0000, Tony Ross > wrote: > >All new formats have to start somewhere! > > > >15 years ago most of my mates could not understand why I wanted a thing > >called a CD player when you could hardly get any music for it and it > >probably would not catch on or 10 years ago why I wanted a business type > >PC in my home and 7 years ago they again wondered why I wanted access to > >something called the Internet. > > > >Give me some credit mate! > > > >This is not intended as part of any type of flame war. I am just > >answering some of your points. > >All the best! > > > By all means! I don't mean to discount anyone's opinion. I'm just > uncertain of the success of mp3-on-cd. Perhaps it will work out, or > perhaps not. Maybe we'll be seeing audio on DVDs which can probably > store 50000000 hours per disc. > > My point is that mp3 may be reserved for a "download on demand" > environment. For the PS2, this may be a good thing, with all the > available expansion ports, etc, but as for the current psx, I'm not > convinced about mp3 distrubution over CD... just yet... > > Steven