[geeks] bizarre stuff available

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:00:24PM +0000, Yuri K wrote:

> Could be transferred to VHS as a cheap alternative to a 'proper' DAT
> temporarily. Easy and cheap.

A local radio station uses a cheap HiFi VCR for their long play programs
that get recorded earlier for over night or sunday morning broadcast.
Makes sense.  In theory a decent HiFi VCR should be very good for audio,
what with the width of the tape, and isn't it a pretty fast tape speed
also? 
 
> MP3 sucks as a medium for anything else but "Home Prairie
> Companion" and funny answering machine messages. I can not stand MP3
> longer than a few minutes: too corpuscular for an analogue signal.

One word.  FLAC.

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Joshua D. Boyd