[bookport] Re: memos
- From: "Marlaina Lieberg" <marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:07:26 -0700
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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