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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 166.1 | | SUMMIT::GUNNERSON | | Wed Aug 14 1985 15:51 | 12 |
| I am glad someone else asked this question first. The only place I have
seen one of these is on the "Electronic Store(?)" flyers I get from American
Express. I figure that it can't be worth $200 since everything else they
sell is vastly overpriced (items that can be had for $250 over the counter
AE sells for $300 or more - probably inludes the interest that they claim
you don't pay). I figured that I'd do better to try to get one of those
$200 Magnovox units that are mentioned in this file if I wanted to do it
cheap.
Are you sure its from Japan, it may be Korean?
jlg
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| 166.2 | | HBO::NEIL | | Wed Aug 14 1985 16:32 | 10 |
| That's were it comes from...
The flyer says Japan. The only 'programming' capabilities it describes
I don't really understand:
- "music search for high speed sampling of the music selections
on an entire disc"
- "repeat memory for instant location of individual songs"
Peter.
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| 166.3 | | EIFFEL::LIONEL | | Wed Aug 14 1985 19:52 | 8 |
| Toyomenka (aka TMK) is Japanese, but very low-end. I have never found
anything from those Amex flyers to be a bargain, though their price on the
KV25XBR is surprisingly reasonable. (Not so the SL-HF400 they're offering
at 50% higher than standard retail!) When you see that they are also
selling the D-5 for $300, you begin to get the picture. You can probably
find a reasonable Sanyo or even a Sony locally. Sony seems to have yet
another line of players at low prices (CDP-30 and CDP-70).
Steve
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| 166.4 | | ESPN::NEIL | | Thu Aug 15 1985 11:32 | 5 |
| OK - so much for shopping at home from AMEX ......
Will go look at Magnavox, Sony, Sanyo types - thanks for the input ..
Peter.
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| 166.5 | | GIGI::MAKOTO | | Fri Aug 16 1985 10:28 | 10 |
| Just for your interest.
The name "TOYOMENKA" is definitely Japanese and it suggests that the
company is in textile business since the direct translation of the name
is:
TOYO - MENKA
Oriental Cotton !
Is this what you call diversification?
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| 166.6 | | SUMMIT::GUNNERSON | | Mon Aug 19 1985 11:13 | 4 |
| Maybe they play CDs with cotton rather than plastic backing. Can permanent
press CDs be far behind!?
:*} jlg
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| 166.7 | | DRAGON::ROSENBERG | | Mon Aug 19 1985 11:55 | 6 |
| Permanent press CDs are already here. I think that it's UN-permanent press
CDs (record as well as plat) that a lot of people are waiting for.
sorry, couldn't resist :-)
Dick Rosenberg
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