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

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


Well, first of all, MPEG4 is in the works...hopefully they'll make the
formats somehow backward compatible. And how can you say that SCSI failed??
It is used in many network and commercial installations, not to mention my
own computer.

-Gabe

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Rittmeyer <bryanr@flash.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: MPG's and Misc Ideas


>
>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.
>
>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/
>