[access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette tapes (I feel no pain)
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:48:15 +0100
Justin. If DAISY has a place in the mass market, I think you will find it will
be in the distribution of spoken word and entertainment material, especially
stuff issued by the likes of the Beeb.
My understanding is that DAISY and the American variant, are aimed at
structuring text alongside audio material on digital media, be it CD, memory
cards, or whatever. This is especially crucial for VI readers who might want,
for example, to do a search on the text element of a book, but then want to
pick up on the spoken word element. AS things stand, I am pretty sure RNIB do
not structure any, or at least very little, of the material they release.
I'm also pretty sure DAISY and/or the American standard, incorporates the
facility of encryption or at least password protection, of material in an
attempt to ensure that only those for whom its intended can listen to it.
I think purely MP3/MP3 Pro discs may come along for music, maybe at a lower
price, and of course, at lower quality, to standard Audio CD and SACD - if the
former survives. The Beeb have already released a small amount of material in
MP3 format.
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin R" <mypc128@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:52 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette
tapes (I feel no pain)
>I have to say, I'd like to see all that done with CD myself. I don't know.
> There's nothing cleaner than information on CD. i think the daisy formats
> are so great. They are brilliant for audio books. Given the audio capacity
> that they can hold and navigation. Music CD's may well benefit from this.
> I'm thinking of greatest hits and box sets CD's that could well benefit
> fromk Daisy formating. It may cut out the four CD box sets and reduce them
> to the double or even single CD. That would make it cheaper to produce such
> box sets in the future, only needing one to two CD's instead of four. For
> music DJ fans, they could navigate to a section of the track, word sung even
> especially for mixing perposes. The possibilities are endless. I love to
> see technology progress and.... I feel Daisy formating is one way to go.
>
> Justin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 8:27 AM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Not long left for cassette
> tapes (I feel no pain)
>
>
>> Never mind cassettes and vinyl being past their sell-by date; I thought
>> this thread was?
>>
>> If we are talking High Fidelity here, well, there will always be purists
>> who will have nothing said against vinyl and who seem to regard it almost
>> with a mystical reverence. All very good if you've the best of
>> turntables/cartridges/preamps etc. Also, fine if you can keep a well
>> pressed LP in its pristine state. For 99% of us, that was never so.
>>
>> AS for DJ's prefering it, that's as much to do with 'scratching' - in the
>> club scene sense - as anything else, and there are now CD units that
>> seemingly can make a good job of that.
>>
>> Again, cassettes could be good on the legendary Nakamichi and Revox decks,
>> but, again, how many of us went to those lengths or could afford too.
>>
>> For all practical purposes digital, in the form of CD or now HD or memory
>> cards, is the practical and very adwquate way audio reproduction is
>> handled. This thread really started around the issue of cassettes as a
>> carrier of not just high quality audio but anything to do with
>> information, inlcuding spoken word. The only challenge left, as far as I
>> am concerned, is to retain an intuitive cassette like interface while
>> adding sophisticated search and indexing features. The machines we use
>> now can take up where you left off in a cassette like fashion, and you can
>> easily bookmark without audible tones or the old, fascical, growling
>> sowed-down indexing speech we used to get on the now defunct old RNIB
>> student cassettes. Thank goodness for progress!
>> Ray
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jillian Grant" <jillian.grant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> As a music listener, I personally find the sound of cassettes, if kept
>>> well
>>> sound better than vinyl. mind you, much prefer cd to tape any day.
>>> don't
>>> have many music tapes left.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Iain Lackie <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Colin,
>>>> Vinyl has retained its place because there are those who say that that
>>>> it
>>>> has better sound quality than any digital source and because dj's use it
>>> for
>>>> there own purposes. No-one would say that the sound quality of cassette
>>>> is
>>>> better than anything and most if not all digital storage media score
>>>> over
>>> it
>>>> in convenience.
>>>>
>>>> Iain.
>>
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