[bookport] Re: memos
- From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:18:06 -0700
sure have, Jerry. In fact, it was i who initially suggested a feature to
allow users to deactivate the feature. What ever APH decide to do, I know
they will have taken all our comments into consideration.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: memos
> Marlaina, have you been monitoring this list lately? Have you any idea of
> the number of postings there have been concerning the poor quality of
memos
> and requests for the reasons behind the poor quality? To be frank with
you,
> I rarely use this feature, less because of its poor quality than for my
> preoccupation with the BookPort's other excellent features.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 3:07 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: memos
>
>
> > I guess I'm unclear as to why anybody would think that a device designed
> to
> > quote read books to us unquote, or a device on which one listens to
crisp
> > clean clear music or audible books, should even have a memo recording
> > feature. In my opinion, rather than improving something that has
nothing
> to
> > do with the mission of BookPort, it should just go away or be user
> disabled.
> > I'd be sad if APH spent time and resources improving on this feature.
> >
> > Marlaina Lieberg
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jerry Neufeld" <jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "bookport" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 5:41 AM
> > Subject: [bookport] memos
> >
> >
> > > While just about everyone, including myself, agrees about the
excellence
> > of
> > > the BookPort as it now stands, assuredly one of the most useful
devices
> > > released in recent years, we also concur, as do a p h people, that the
> > voice
> > > quality of memos is less than poor. From what one gathers from Larry,
> > Robert
> > > and Pamela, we are to be saddled with this problem, no matter future
> > > improvements in software. This suggests that the sampling rate can
only
> be
> > > changed if the mother board is accordingly revised, not an altogether
> > > appealing prospect for those of us who already have units. I suspect
> that
> > > this unusually low rate was determined to save space on what was,
then,
> > > expensive flash cards. Given price drops for flash cards, most of us
> well
> > > beyond 64mb now, I suggest that a p h see to it that appropriate
changes
> > to
> > > the hardware be made, preserving other features, so that memos are
> > > intelligible in any place but a quiet room. Nearly every digital
memory
> > unit
> > > sold, low-cost or more expensive, allows for varying sample rate, the
> > better
> > > quality the speech, the greater amount of memory. We could very easily
> > have
> > > good quality memory in the BookPort with now minimal cost to us in
terms
> > of
> > > memory. A question. Why are the people at a p h so firmly committed to
> > what
> > > all of us recognize as a very week link in an otherwise very
impressive
> > > chain?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > > jerry.neufeld@xxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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