Re: [PLUG] AMD or Intel P4??

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

he he he - there is a reason I don't buy Music CD-Rs.  But as for the
MDs:
a.) I could provide many other examples.
b.) The music industry approves of them, and actually produces them
(sony owns the patents).  Why?  Because the affordable consumer units
let you record music in extremely good quality digitally, but they don't
let you get that music off of the MD again in digital form.  This means
that you can buy or rent a CD and make an MD of it, but you can't easily
dupe that MD to give to your friends.  All of my MD players (except the
MD-data drive on my PC) have an optical in, but none of them have an
optical out.  

It would be nice if the reason MDs were unpopular were because of the
copy-protection, but I am sure that isn't the case.  The reason they are
unpopular is because people are just to cheap to shell out $300 to have
something very good when they can shell out $100 and have something that
works.  In other countries, more people are willing to save their money
and buy better products, and take better care of them.

At any rate, there are of course counter-examples to this, it's just a
general trend.  But General trends determine what companies do.

 -- noah silva

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 17:37, Art Clemons wrote:
> Noah Silva:
> > I have to agree with this.  This is especially true in the USA, where
> > people are known throughout the world for being cheap-asses.  Casette
> > tape recorders are still more readily available here than MD recorders.
> > 
> 
> It has more to do with the strong intellectual property position taken 
> by Congress and the courts than citizens of the US being unwilling to 
> adopt or adapt to technology.  You also have the spectre for any large 
> importer of having to fight expensive lawsuits to gain the right to 
> import because the products can be used to record, and Congress, being 
> the monetary whore that it presently is, is all too likely to agree.
> The other problem of course is that US companies no longer tend to 
> manufacture their own products, meaning that something is likely to be 
> test marketed in Japan, Korea or Europe before getting into the US.  One 
> hint, ever noticed the extra charge for a "music" CDR, it's a tax?
> 
> 
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