To be fair, cassettes were a bit of a different story, as what NLS did was far from out of the ordinary or even a secret. Some of the higher- end tape decks already had this ability even before NLS did, and you could usually find one that wasn't anywhere near as pricy as some of the specialized players. Heck, I knew of a child's toy that operated on the same exact principle of four-track playback, the only difference was it ran at standard cassette speed rather than the half- speed NLS tapes ran at, and it's not as though NLS was the first to find a use for analog tape speed controls.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:53, David Poehlman wrote:
NLS will have a free player though in two models but I agree. It should not be necessary for those who already have perfectly good devices to have yet another to keep track of. I understood i when it was cassettes because we got 4 tracks and variable speed etc and there was also the choice of buying several of them. I also sort of understand this approach for similar considerations, but it wouldn't be hard to do this with the IPod for instance although they would have to add features.On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:I admit, NLS does bother me for that exact same reason. Why should we need a special player? I've heard the argument that it's no different from doing something like the Amazon Kindle, but that argument falls flat on one simple premice: you're not forced to use the Kindle if you don't want to. We are forced to buy another player, and I guess something in me rebels at that idea. Maybe I'm just an oddball, in fact I know I'm an oddball :), but I can't help but think that I have a laptop, as well as an iPod that does everything I need or want. The only thing it doesn't do is play NLS books, and I guess NLS just isn't important enough to me for me to want yet another device, especially if it's almost double the cost of something I already have and would serve me no other purpose.On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:28, Cheryl Homiak wrote:NLS doesn't bother me because they aren't making their downloads accessible to only one OS. You have to have a special player, ridiculous or not, no matter what OS you are using, and it's possible to download your books and load them onto your player using any of the Oses.-- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.--Douglas AdamsClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverClick on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.comManage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below.//www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Webinterface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
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