Interesting, how do they sell lots of these if it's compatible with only the Sony portable player? I have a feeling this will get wide spread acceptance just like the Data Play music player. The market is already full of incompatable formats. WMA-Music Match, Apple I-Pod-I-Tunes, Napster-Napster branded Samsung, now a Sony only format for a portable player. Sheesh I thought the VHS/Betamax wars were bad. Somehow in the betamax wars, they are probably providing the equlivant of 1/2 inch reel to reel videotape. It existed, but had very limited consumer use.
None of these formats solve the in-dash MP3 player compatibility issues with any of the services.
Too bad they won't get it right till I can rip, mix, burn. I don't do the CD shuffle in rush hour traffic. I load the MP3 CD and let it run. Somehow I think the Sony CD is still a broken format. The same applies for my CD jogger MP3 Player. Who works out carying a CD player and a CD wallet? I sure don't.
I'm not interested in deciding which DRM player format to buy. Music Match, I tunes, Napster, Get real. Provide MP3's. I already have the equipment. I don't need a 4-way VHS-Betamax DRM format battle. (MS, Samsung, Sony, Apple)
How do you tell them apart? Many red book CD's don't have the Compact Disk logo. Many copy protected CD's are not labled as such. Do you take a list of "defective CD's" to the store with you? I've been bypassing lots of probably OK CD's because I don't buy DRM CD's. I look for the Compact Disk logo.
If they built it as low maitnance and as reliable as my fridge (The compressor is welded shut) I would love it. Too bad they can't make one that will last for 15-20 years and needs no service except dusting off the radiator once in a while.
I remember it. I lived a few blocks away. They ruined it by putting the arcade upstairs. That ruined the experiance and it turned into a tiny Chuck-E-Cheeze joint that didn't play kids music. Adults that enjoy a good theatre organ show quit going and the arcade wasn't big enough to support the place on quarters. They were out of business a couple years later. Think about it. Would you go to a Phantom of the Opera show with a kids arcade in the room?
They should have kept the original format that worked instead of trying to make money on the side with an arcade that destroyed the show.
I know the feeling. I have Windows 95 on a laptop with only 72 Meg (maxed out) of memory. Resetting the LAN TCP/IP to use a gateway while traveling breaks dial-up. I have to delete the gateway to use the modem. I don't think they are going to fix it.
I have Windows CE 3.0 on a handheld. I wanted to use it as a very portable terminal with the serial port. The terminal program assumes a modem is connected and won't connect with out giving it a phone number to dial. There is no option to not use a modem (other than Active Sync). I could not find the correct key sequence to send out a null charactor. It's trapped by the OS and not sent out the port. (Same problem as the Tandy portable the M100 has which also can not transmit a null from the terminal). This is not good for the hardware I needed to operate. It's looking for a null (ASCII 0) and doesn't know what to do with ATDT5551212.
I upgraded the hardware in a Windows 98 Box. Found out the hard way Windows 98 does not like Pentium 4's even with all the latest patches and service packs.
I am very reluctant to buy the next version of the OS to find out what needs a work around or simply won't work. I no longer buy software upgrades. The upgrades wait for the hardware upgrade cycle. I buy a machine with an OS expecting to never upgrade the OS beyond the current version.
Old boxes make great Linux routers, game servers, web and office app machines, SMB servers, photo editors, media centers, etc. Just don't expect to have the OS work if you upgrade the hardware to a new generation, or upgrade the OS to a new generation without upgrading the hardware. This is especialy true for MS. They even work as a dumb terminal if needed and it works properly.
The whole idea is for the relacement of your expensive home long distance carrier. Pay phones are another matter. The calling card is taped to the wall next to the kitchen phone, not carried about. I have another one locked in my drawer at work.
With the primary use definition out of the way, a card is still less than half the price of the cheapest telemarketer offer for long distance. None of the telemarketer offers were free of any monthly charges. They can't compete with a phone card.
Use one of the 2.9 cent phone cards. They don't have a monthly fee. I know BigZoo's monthly $0.75 isn't much, but $0.00 is better.
There is no sign up and no credit card needed for a phone card. I currently use a MCI 625 minute $20 card. It's rechargable or replacable.
Ok to give credit where credit is due, you can use the service cheaper for some international calling, but I don't call overseas, so a domestic card does just fine.
I think a few will buy it, but due to the high costs for low quality over the air programming, I think the Internet will make an end run past TV as a primary source of news and entertainment. Heck even without DRM DTV, it's already happened for me. I spend less than 2 hours a week watching broadcast TV. It has been replaced. The TV is pretty much a monitor for the VCR and DVD. DRM and it's high cost for a receiver will kill off the last 2 hours easly when NTSC over the air goes dark.
It looks like they are having a major case of the dog guarding the haystack. It doesn't matter when the huge field of fresh green grass awaits outside.
Translation; The difficult to use and therefore unwatched TV (dry stale & well guarded hay) is replaced by internet (fresh new material not from tv). The internet does not need to run TV shows. They have their own better content.
TV can have lots of great padlocks all over it, but it won't matter. Few will pay for the locks and keys (DTV receivers) to watch heavly DRM'ed low quality content.
I can't take the output from my digital camcorder and make a DTV signal from it. No sending vidios of the kids to the grandparrents in the new standard. They won't be able to play your home movies because they become encrypted like it or not when imported into the new format. That's a great way to close the analog hole and 3rd party video content creation. Long live NTSC, AVI and VCD's.
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Last time I checked, a directional antenna works both ways. Has something changed that make the directional antenna provide gain when transmitting and not when receiving?
Think about it. The Dish antenna on top of houses for TV are to receive a weak signal, not send a signal.
A can antenna would not only increase your transmit range but also increase the receive range. I see no reason a cantenna would not work on one end to increase the 2 way connection.
Am I missing something? I haven't seen any indication they would offer MP3's. Let me know where you got the info. I've been looking for MP3's. I can't play WMA9 DRM stuff in my car MP3 player. My car also can't play any streaming format.
If they are offering a useful format, please reply to this post!
They are not far away. Is is suprising that the most popular formats MP3 and Ogg are not supported? If it was a true business that listened to it's consumers, they would realise there is a huge market for high quality product. Their presense is why it's mostly DRM incompatible with anything I use to play music. Good business would be to sell to the industry standards. If I sold videos the way the RIAA forces music to be incompatible with most of the market, it would be the same as selling PAL Betamax videotape movies in the USA. Somehow I think VHS and DVD's would be easer to sell. (MP3 and Ogg to the music guys)
The bottled water people got it, the music industry didn't. (well Napster did, but they were not shut down for having a product that nobody wanted).
The MS graph looked steady until May of 2002 them something drastic happened. MS took a sharp drop. Apachie at the same time to a jump up. What time did the rash of worms start again?
It must be a compatibility issue with Intel P4's. It's a whole lot more stable on a P100 and PIII sytem than it is on the newer hardware. Thanks for the info. I was thinking it was a hardware problem that I couldn't isolate because Win 98 works much better (far from perfect) on a couple older machines that are not using P4's or AGP video cards. Too bad my hardware upgrade was such a stability downgrade. I knew something major was wrong as it was very unstable from day one. That was the reason for a CPU exchange, memory exchange, video card exchange, motherboard replacement (another model same brand) and lots of lost time. Time to chalk it up to learning by the school of hard knocks.
As I mentioned earlier, this box will probably become a hot Suse box. I can't seem to pay MS inflated retail prices for the OS when I have one of their OS'es with all patches and it still doesn't work properly. I would think 98 should be somewhat stable by now. I don't want to reward that poor performance. It's insult to injury. I'll just get the new OS at OEM prices on a new box instead of paying retail and going through chapter 2 of fussing and fixing. The TCO of do it yourself is way too high for MS products. I won't pirate 2000 pro. I'm also not going to pay $200-$300 for the full version either to get a new set of headaches to work out. (I'm referring to all the latest MS viri were not 95, & 98, but 2000 and XP specific). I've been trying to avoid the latest bugs.
I wish I could mod you up for informative. However, there is a finite number of times a CDRW can be re written due to the space on the CD for adjusting the laser write power. Once that is full, it can not be re-formatted. I have no idea how many times that is. I also don't like the amount of time required to re-format CDRW's. I don't have a MAC, so I wonder if that option is there for the Windows crowd.
I wish they would get a clue from the bottled water folks. I want a good source of high quality MP3's that could be put into a playlist for the PC in Winamp and burnt into a MP3 CD for the car. There are a few tracks I would like to get. So far all I have been promised is a high price for low usability.
Please SOMEBODY... Provide a Quality product? Choice of high quality MP3 or OGG files would be nice.
Too bad the DRM problem only permits burning to CD or the Samsung player for music portability. Being stuck with the DRM problem kills it for an option for me. The burn, rip, mix, burn to MP3 uses way too many CDR's to make a full CDR of MP3's for my car.
Maybe someday, MP3's will be avaliable for download again. Then I can download, make playlists, and burn to MP3 CD's for the car.
I wonder if they are going to cry "PIRACY" for all the CDR's that are going to be burnt to RIP MIX BURN.
To burn one full MP3 CDR, It will need about a dozen music CDR's burnt to rip. What a hastle, what a waste. Too much hastle... No Sale this time. Try again.
I think it's a software problem. I've swapped out the motherboard for a diffrent model, swapped the CPU, video card, and memory. I haven't been able to track down the persistant random glitch killing the box. I do know the Active X required for one of the kids games has problems. The stuff not running Active X runs smoothly. Stuff running it is very choppy. I've spent way too much time and money trying to fix it without sucess. Time to go with a factory built box with a warranty. With homebuilt, it's sometimes impossible to isolate a fault to return the faulty component. For some reason, Windows 98 just doesn't like Asus boards with DDR memory and 3D AGP graphics cards. I haven't been able to narrow down the problem beyound that. I kept up with Windows update and McAffee. It doesn't matter if printing to a local or networked printer, the result is the same. Due to the price of Windows 2000 Pro and Office 2000 pro, that box is not getting another copy of Windows. It's going to become a Suse box. The wife is getting a new Del P4 2.66 Ghz with flatscreen 17 inch monitor. I will transplant Office 2000 to it for her. Maybe I can then show her OO and Suse is much better, even on the 9 month old hardware.
Sometimes I think hardware manufactures debug for a specific hardware configuration and homebuilders do not have that advantage. My ancient P200 laptop using EDO memory running Win 95 is MUCH more stable. But that is a factory packaged deal. I'm not going to risk updating the OS for fear of breaking something. The laptop simply works. I wish it had some sort of accelerated 3D graphics:-(
With a blacklist, my inbox is broken to many domains. This is my e-mail being broken by spam and it's sheer volume. In a way it fits the definition of DOS. Without the spam attack, my inbox would properly function for everyone from all domains. This is not the case and legit mail does get blocked. All.nl and.ru is broken. The only reason they are broken is due to DOS spam attacks. Parts of my inbox are chopped off to keep other parts somewhat working. Most.com,.edu,.net, and.gov still work.
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but only sony players are supported.
Interesting, how do they sell lots of these if it's compatible with only the Sony portable player? I have a feeling this will get wide spread acceptance just like the Data Play music player. The market is already full of incompatable formats. WMA-Music Match, Apple I-Pod-I-Tunes, Napster-Napster branded Samsung, now a Sony only format for a portable player. Sheesh I thought the VHS/Betamax wars were bad. Somehow in the betamax wars, they are probably providing the equlivant of 1/2 inch reel to reel videotape. It existed, but had very limited consumer use.
None of these formats solve the in-dash MP3 player compatibility issues with any of the services.
Making them jump through hoops
Um, I think this will result in lower sales. If I can't rip it to my MP3 mix CD for the car, I won't buy the album because it's useless.
I wonder if the Reduced Piracy makes up for the Reduced Sales. I don't buy CD's without the Compact Disk logo.
Too bad they won't get it right till I can rip, mix, burn. I don't do the CD shuffle in rush hour traffic. I load the MP3 CD and let it run. Somehow I think the Sony CD is still a broken format. The same applies for my CD jogger MP3 Player. Who works out carying a CD player and a CD wallet? I sure don't.
I'm not interested in deciding which DRM player format to buy. Music Match, I tunes, Napster, Get real. Provide MP3's. I already have the equipment. I don't need a 4-way VHS-Betamax DRM format battle. (MS, Samsung, Sony, Apple)
Is there a Darwin Award for killing your own career?
Yes, Listing on the "F*ck'ed Company website"
How do you tell them apart? Many red book CD's don't have the Compact Disk logo. Many copy protected CD's are not labled as such. Do you take a list of "defective CD's" to the store with you? I've been bypassing lots of probably OK CD's because I don't buy DRM CD's. I look for the Compact Disk logo.
as he was the first person to make a cartoon with sound (Steamboat Willie (1928)).
He also was first with the Multi-Plane Camera used in Mary Poppins.
Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut??
If they built it as low maitnance and as reliable as my fridge (The compressor is welded shut) I would love it. Too bad they can't make one that will last for 15-20 years and needs no service except dusting off the radiator once in a while.
I remember it. I lived a few blocks away. They ruined it by putting the arcade upstairs. That ruined the experiance and it turned into a tiny Chuck-E-Cheeze joint that didn't play kids music. Adults that enjoy a good theatre organ show quit going and the arcade wasn't big enough to support the place on quarters. They were out of business a couple years later. Think about it. Would you go to a Phantom of the Opera show with a kids arcade in the room?
They should have kept the original format that worked instead of trying to make money on the side with an arcade that destroyed the show.
Since the service is not for downloads or burning, the NIX box could easly connect to the analog hole on the roomate's Win box and save 99 cents.
(analog hole; 1/8 inch diamater stereo miniplug)
I know the feeling. I have Windows 95 on a laptop with only 72 Meg (maxed out) of memory. Resetting the LAN TCP/IP to use a gateway while traveling breaks dial-up. I have to delete the gateway to use the modem. I don't think they are going to fix it.
I have Windows CE 3.0 on a handheld. I wanted to use it as a very portable terminal with the serial port. The terminal program assumes a modem is connected and won't connect with out giving it a phone number to dial. There is no option to not use a modem (other than Active Sync). I could not find the correct key sequence to send out a null charactor. It's trapped by the OS and not sent out the port. (Same problem as the Tandy portable the M100 has which also can not transmit a null from the terminal). This is not good for the hardware I needed to operate. It's looking for a null (ASCII 0) and doesn't know what to do with ATDT5551212.
I upgraded the hardware in a Windows 98 Box. Found out the hard way Windows 98 does not like Pentium 4's even with all the latest patches and service packs.
I am very reluctant to buy the next version of the OS to find out what needs a work around or simply won't work. I no longer buy software upgrades. The upgrades wait for the hardware upgrade cycle. I buy a machine with an OS expecting to never upgrade the OS beyond the current version.
Old boxes make great Linux routers, game servers, web and office app machines, SMB servers, photo editors, media centers, etc. Just don't expect to have the OS work if you upgrade the hardware to a new generation, or upgrade the OS to a new generation without upgrading the hardware. This is especialy true for MS. They even work as a dumb terminal if needed and it works properly.
The whole idea is for the relacement of your expensive home long distance carrier. Pay phones are another matter. The calling card is taped to the wall next to the kitchen phone, not carried about. I have another one locked in my drawer at work.
With the primary use definition out of the way, a card is still less than half the price of the cheapest telemarketer offer for long distance. None of the telemarketer offers were free of any monthly charges. They can't compete with a phone card.
Use one of the 2.9 cent phone cards. They don't have a monthly fee. I know BigZoo's monthly $0.75 isn't much, but $0.00 is better.
There is no sign up and no credit card needed for a phone card. I currently use a MCI 625 minute $20 card. It's rechargable or replacable.
Ok to give credit where credit is due, you can use the service cheaper for some international calling, but I don't call overseas, so a domestic card does just fine.
I think a few will buy it, but due to the high costs for low quality over the air programming, I think the Internet will make an end run past TV as a primary source of news and entertainment. Heck even without DRM DTV, it's already happened for me. I spend less than 2 hours a week watching broadcast TV. It has been replaced. The TV is pretty much a monitor for the VCR and DVD. DRM and it's high cost for a receiver will kill off the last 2 hours easly when NTSC over the air goes dark.
It looks like they are having a major case of the dog guarding the haystack. It doesn't matter when the huge field of fresh green grass awaits outside.
Translation;
The difficult to use and therefore unwatched TV (dry stale & well guarded hay) is replaced by internet (fresh new material not from tv). The internet does not need to run TV shows. They have their own better content.
TV can have lots of great padlocks all over it, but it won't matter. Few will pay for the locks and keys (DTV receivers) to watch heavly DRM'ed low quality content.
I can't take the output from my digital camcorder and make a DTV signal from it. No sending vidios of the kids to the grandparrents in the new standard. They won't be able to play your home movies because they become encrypted like it or not when imported into the new format. That's a great way to close the analog hole and 3rd party video content creation. Long live NTSC, AVI and VCD's.
Last time I checked, a directional antenna works both ways. Has something changed that make the directional antenna provide gain when transmitting and not when receiving?
Think about it. The Dish antenna on top of houses for TV are to receive a weak signal, not send a signal.
A can antenna would not only increase your transmit range but also increase the receive range. I see no reason a cantenna would not work on one end to increase the 2 way connection.
Have I missed anything?
Am I missing something? I haven't seen any indication they would offer MP3's. Let me know where you got the info. I've been looking for MP3's. I can't play WMA9 DRM stuff in my car MP3 player. My car also can't play any streaming format.
If they are offering a useful format, please reply to this post!
They are not far away. Is is suprising that the most popular formats MP3 and Ogg are not supported? If it was a true business that listened to it's consumers, they would realise there is a huge market for high quality product. Their presense is why it's mostly DRM incompatible with anything I use to play music. Good business would be to sell to the industry standards. If I sold videos the way the RIAA forces music to be incompatible with most of the market, it would be the same as selling PAL Betamax videotape movies in the USA. Somehow I think VHS and DVD's would be easer to sell. (MP3 and Ogg to the music guys)
The bottled water people got it, the music industry didn't. (well Napster did, but they were not shut down for having a product that nobody wanted).
The MS graph looked steady until May of 2002 them something drastic happened. MS took a sharp drop. Apachie at the same time to a jump up. What time did the rash of worms start again?
It must be a compatibility issue with Intel P4's. It's a whole lot more stable on a P100 and PIII sytem than it is on the newer hardware. Thanks for the info. I was thinking it was a hardware problem that I couldn't isolate because Win 98 works much better (far from perfect) on a couple older machines that are not using P4's or AGP video cards. Too bad my hardware upgrade was such a stability downgrade. I knew something major was wrong as it was very unstable from day one. That was the reason for a CPU exchange, memory exchange, video card exchange, motherboard replacement (another model same brand) and lots of lost time. Time to chalk it up to learning by the school of hard knocks.
As I mentioned earlier, this box will probably become a hot Suse box. I can't seem to pay MS inflated retail prices for the OS when I have one of their OS'es with all patches and it still doesn't work properly. I would think 98 should be somewhat stable by now. I don't want to reward that poor performance. It's insult to injury. I'll just get the new OS at OEM prices on a new box instead of paying retail and going through chapter 2 of fussing and fixing. The TCO of do it yourself is way too high for MS products. I won't pirate 2000 pro. I'm also not going to pay $200-$300 for the full version either to get a new set of headaches to work out.
(I'm referring to all the latest MS viri were not 95, & 98, but 2000 and XP specific). I've been trying to avoid the latest bugs.
I wish I could mod you up for informative. However, there is a finite number of times a CDRW can be re written due to the space on the CD for adjusting the laser write power. Once that is full, it can not be re-formatted. I have no idea how many times that is. I also don't like the amount of time required to re-format CDRW's.
I don't have a MAC, so I wonder if that option is there for the Windows crowd.
I wish they would get a clue from the bottled water folks. I want a good source of high quality MP3's that could be put into a playlist for the PC in Winamp and burnt into a MP3 CD for the car. There are a few tracks I would like to get. So far all I have been promised is a high price for low usability.
Please SOMEBODY... Provide a Quality product? Choice of high quality MP3 or OGG files would be nice.
Stuff guaranteed to be broken need not apply.
Too bad the DRM problem only permits burning to CD or the Samsung player for music portability. Being stuck with the DRM problem kills it for an option for me. The burn, rip, mix, burn to MP3 uses way too many CDR's to make a full CDR of MP3's for my car.
Maybe someday, MP3's will be avaliable for download again. Then I can download, make playlists, and burn to MP3 CD's for the car.
I wonder if they are going to cry "PIRACY" for all the CDR's that are going to be burnt to RIP MIX BURN.
To burn one full MP3 CDR, It will need about a dozen music CDR's burnt to rip. What a hastle, what a waste. Too much hastle... No Sale this time. Try again.
I think it's a software problem. I've swapped out the motherboard for a diffrent model, swapped the CPU, video card, and memory. I haven't been able to track down the persistant random glitch killing the box. I do know the Active X required for one of the kids games has problems. The stuff not running Active X runs smoothly. Stuff running it is very choppy. I've spent way too much time and money trying to fix it without sucess. Time to go with a factory built box with a warranty. With homebuilt, it's sometimes impossible to isolate a fault to return the faulty component. For some reason, Windows 98 just doesn't like Asus boards with DDR memory and 3D AGP graphics cards. I haven't been able to narrow down the problem beyound that. I kept up with Windows update and McAffee. It doesn't matter if printing to a local or networked printer, the result is the same. Due to the price of Windows 2000 Pro and Office 2000 pro, that box is not getting another copy of Windows. It's going to become a Suse box. The wife is getting a new Del P4 2.66 Ghz with flatscreen 17 inch monitor. I will transplant Office 2000 to it for her. Maybe I can then show her OO and Suse is much better, even on the 9 month old hardware.
:-(
Sometimes I think hardware manufactures debug for a specific hardware configuration and homebuilders do not have that advantage. My ancient P200 laptop using EDO memory running Win 95 is MUCH more stable. But that is a factory packaged deal. I'm not going to risk updating the OS for fear of breaking something. The laptop simply works. I wish it had some sort of accelerated 3D graphics
With a blacklist, my inbox is broken to many domains. This is my e-mail being broken by spam and it's sheer volume. In a way it fits the definition of DOS. Without the spam attack, my inbox would properly function for everyone from all domains. This is not the case and legit mail does get blocked. All .nl and .ru is broken. The only reason they are broken is due to DOS spam attacks. Parts of my inbox are chopped off to keep other parts somewhat working. Most .com, .edu, .net, and .gov still work.