Ho Darryl, How're you doin'?
On 23-Feb-98 at 11:31:58, Darryl Sloan wrote to Graeme Jaye about
Re: Digital recording
 GJ> A hard disk recorder might be useful for mastering your
 GJ> material but it will be next to useless as a distribution
 GJ> medium.
 DS> Not necessarily. It's the videogame scene I'm into for music,
 DS> so I could record music to HD as WAVE files, then copy them to
 DS> Zip disk for distribution, and I would expect the software
 DS> companies to have a PC at their end.
Fair comment.  I had assumed you were working on music for another
type of company.  You're right, of course, software companies would
have the right kit for this.
 DS> Though I suppose a Zip drive could be absent, yeah
That might prove a bit of a stumbling block, I agree.
 DS> I really need 16-bit for CD-quality. 
You certainly do.
 DS> So I'm jettisoning this option
Back to the CD then .
 DS> The only thing I fear is this whole DVD business. I don't want
 DS> to purchase a CD-writer, only to discover that it is obselete
 DS> in two years
Quite honestly, can you think of *anything* in this business
which won't be at least obsolescent in two years time?  I'm
damned if I can!
IKWYM but I would take heart in the fact that DVD *is* a new
technology and will take some time to settle down and it will take
even longer before the price drops to something approaching
reasonable.  Also, the amount of space available is way over the top
for music files, really.  It's of far more use to the video guys.
Furthermore, it will be a long time (if ever) before the DVD becomes
a part of a typical domestic system.
CD writers are not so expensive now and the disks have really
plummeted in price - I'd go for it, IIWY
Keep 'em comin'
Graeme in Dover, England
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