Re: TI-H: MPG's and Misc Ideas

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Re: TI-H: MPG's and Misc Ideas




Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:

> Well, I don't think MPEG3 has much future as an audio standard. Those
> compression nuts are pumping out new stuff all the time... and as
> computers get more advanced so will the compression algorythms.
> I think a portable, digital audio player is a bit ahead of its time,
> seeing as how you can't simply walk into a normal music store, plug
> in your digital player and have the latest DMB CD downloaded to it in
> thirty seconds and your credit card charged $18.95 or whatever.
> Sure, you may have ten thousand mp3s on DAT tape but the vast majority
> of the population has never even downloaded an MPEG3 player, whereas
> almost everyone has a cheap analog tape player/radio. As BETAMAX,
> SCSI, and so many other failed "awesome" standards have showed us,
> numbers do matter more than quality in the electronics business.
>

Um, SCSI isn't a failed interface. IBM PC's use it for superior speed, it just
never caught on with the masses because it used to be so much more expensive
than IDE. (IDE on IBM's USUALLY come on the motherboard, not always but
usually, so its just the cost of the drive, no worrying about which connector
am I supposed to use? or I have to terminate it???, you just play and play, or
set one jumper and plug and play. With SCSI you need a host adapter, then you
need to know the SCSI id's of everything etc. Too hard for the 'end user',
refering to those people who turn on the computer, but don't have a clue past
playing some games and installing stuff.)

SCSI is also on ALL mac's, but I refuse to buy one for multiple reasons, one
of which is the total lack of support for it from 3rd party developers, just
try to buy StarCraft when I could buy it on IBM, its not going to happen. Any
way, Apple was smart and used SCSI insted of this crappy idea we call IDE.
(Yeah, I'm talking about the original IDE, where the throughput sucked no
matter how fast the drive was spinning) So thats why I use SCSI, and so do a
lot of professionals, so really it wasn't a failure, it just isn't wide spread
because the average computer user it too stupid to figure it out.

> The gas vending idea is a good one, but I think they should just get
> rid of gasoline powered automobiles in favor of electric ones. Gas
> engines are at best 20% efficient... good electric cars can do about
> 60%. I'm no environmentalist, but it doesn't make sense to waste
> energy.
>
> Man, now I'm way off topic.
>
> Bryan
>
> John Malluck wrote:
> >
> > I see the possibility of making a small fortune of of a portable mpg
> > player! Damn, I'd gladly part with $300 to buy one.
> >
> > Good Ideas for the day:
> > 1. Digital Radio. If your going to make a mpg for the car why not
> > include a unit for processing digital radio? Cd quality radio! Or you
> > could set up a system where you could pay for commercial-less radio
> > (encoded data). Who knows...
> >
> > 2. Gas vending machine. Why not cross a gas pump with a vending machine.
> > Feed it $5 and get $5 dollars worth of gas metered out. More efficient!
> > No night staff needed at gas stations!
> >
> > Just some ideas I needed to get out into the mainstream....
> >                                 -Michael Malluck
>
> --
> Bryan Rittmeyer
> mailto:bryanr@flash.net
> http://www.bridges.edu/horizon/

  Adam Johnson
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