In Reply to: Laptops as a portable DVD? . . . posted by Martin on April 28, 2003 at 04:09:06:
To each his own... there's a lot of room for dedicated multimedia devices, and a high-end segment will probably emerge. I'm open to all options, and I can see that the younger generation is more interested in mobility and individual use than in pure sonic quality (a wireless portable game console / dvd player / mobile phone / Internet platform being some kind of convergence nirvana for that generation : )Most of these dedicated portable players have a poor audio section at the moment, I checked a few models and even the analog outputs were pretty cheap. Also, I have some doubts about the audio format that they will output (because they are DVD players, I suspect that some will still reformat everything to 48k as a native format).
At the moment, you have a lot more flexibility for pure audio treatment using a laptop than a dedicated DVD/DVD-A player. The quality of built-in screens is improving very fast (see the latest Apple models?).
In terms of audio quality, see the recent posts by Ducati below for some interesting use of 24/96, all the way from recording to playback.
Anyway, I like to see a wide variety of platforms on the market.
Best
Eric
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- There you go - Eric LeRouge 04:45:01 04/28/03 (1)
- Re: There you go - Martin 08:25:15 04/28/03 (0)