I totally agree here, I use all formats because of what is out there but a
CD is where you want to be, at least for the time being anyway. I have
various bird data on cd as a quick reference with birds from all over the
world, a few of them come on DVD like the "DVD rom guide to all the birds of
Europe" there is no way I can use this as I can for instance "Stokes field
guides etc.
Although you can hold much, much more data on a DVD format, I feel at the
moment you will freeze a lot of users out that have only just gone to CD.
Who knows what format we will have and settle with at a later date but CD
will stay for the foreseeable time.
Martyn
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From: Walter Knapp
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:13 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] RE: Ecuador Audio Publications
From: "Barb Beck" <>
>
> I listen to CDs on my home system and Cd players in the car. I do not
> travel with a puter - hey that is my one time to get away from the blasted
> things. I think currently the CD format would be much better accepted by
> the public in general. I would prefer it on CD. Heck I still have people
> requesting tapes because they do not use a CD!
>
> Old Grannie Barb Beck
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where we are looking at a low of -14 tonight
when
> we start owling for the CBC at 12:01 AM.
And we think it's bad that we are getting down just to freezing.
I would agree with Barb. For all the talk, DVD, particularly DVD's
containing computer files, is a minority format. Even CD has not fully
penetrated. The folks I worked with on the frog CD talked of it as a
tape when they did not think about it. They all record with cassette. I
was the first one in the group to record frogcalls onto CD for them. And
I did that in audio CD (and still do) and only that after verifying that
they had CD players. Don't assume your audience has what you have.
As a matter of record, my cars are all equipped with MD/AM/FM units. I
have a Sony MXD-D3 deck that will "clone" a CD onto a MD. So I don't use
CD's in my car, but MD's. (and also my wife's iPod from time to time,
but that's a different story) MD's are much more practical for car use.
Before that I copied to cassette for car use.
My main home system has DVD with the TV's for watching movies. But it
could not play computer formats. It does, of course, have both cassette
and audio CD. I don't play call CD's much on it, but mostly from the
computer via headphones.
We may live in this rarefied world of fancy stuff, but most of the world
does not.
When making a disk of a country like Ecuador, how many sales go back to
the country? I'd expect even CD would be much less common there, and
computers of any kind very uncommon. By only putting things out in the
latest technology we are freezing a lot of folks out of the info.
Walt
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