Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!rich From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Adjust-Speed CD player?? Message-ID: <12789@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 18:55:25 GMT References: <6028@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <89255.105143P85025@BARILVM.BITNET><7767@microsoft.UUCP> <89264.171306P85025@BARILVM.BITNET> <8909@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <7814@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 In article <7814@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) writes: ... ... ... >It's too bad that that music company Southworth recently went bankrupt. >They had announced a Macintosh II-based set of cards which employed >similar compression schemes. They cited 30 minutes of stereo audio on >a 40 M hard disk with 20 bit samples at a rate of 192 kHz per channel. > >Brian Willoughby >UUCP: ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw >InterNet: microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET > or: microsoft!brianw@Sun.COM >Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCP Wow, maybe certain people got nervous about the potential ramifications a system such as this has with respect to the *recording industry*. [Where are those DAT/Writable CD systems anyway -- guess all us musicians should move to Japan!] :-) (I don't want to start a big flame about this, but it's been a sour spot with me for quite some time). -- -- Rich (rich@eddie.mit.edu). The circle is open, but unbroken. Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again.