| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
| Total number of notes: | 13349 |
I called North American Phillips a few days ago asking for details on their new spring line of 16-bit players. I didn't find out much, but... They will have a program memory for 250 disks. I guess that you save the favorite tracks of your disks and then never have to punch in the program again. Sounds nifty. I suppose the track information at the beginning of the disk is probably unique enough to use as a serial number (unless there is one?). And I thought the Japanese always had the most bells and whistles...
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 183.1 | WHY::ADEY | Thu Sep 19 1985 16:39 | 4 | ||
Can someone tell me what's 'new' about 16 bit players. I thought the Sony/Phillips data format (the industry standard) 'is' 16 bits. Ken.... | |||||
| 183.2 | AMBER::KAEPPLEIN | Thu Sep 19 1985 17:09 | 6 | ||
Phillips and Nakamichi currently use 14 bit digital to analog converters with quad oversampling yielding nearly 16 bit resolution. The numbers on the disk have always been 16 bits worth of data. What is new is that you don't have to enter programs all the time! | |||||