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From: jeff@tesla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD availability
Message-ID: <86@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 19:02:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 19:02:50 1983
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Jordan Marsh in Boston has a Magnavox CD player on demo.  They sold the
only one available for sale within the first hour they had it on demo,
for $800.  And that was before they had ANY CD`s to sell with it; the
person who bought it only had the demo disc packed with the player
to amortize is investment with.
BUt JM now has about twenty-five CD`s, all European pressings (DG, Philips),
at $20.
Incidentally the Philips/Magnavox literature that JM has says the A/D in
the player is 16-bit.  Will some information-theory expert out there please
go and study up on that Philips Technical Review issue that summarized CD
technology in 1982, and explain why they think they can make that statement,
and what`s the difference anyway?  No dilettante answers, please--professionals
only, so we don`t distribute misinformation, rumors, etc., on this net.
Jeff