Re: Storage media sizes exploding

Michael Black wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Romeo Rondeau wrote:
> 
>> Soundhaspriority wrote:
>>> "geoff" <geoff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>> news:Z6KdnefW47O6GILVnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> It always amuses me when the next greatest memory technology is 
>>>> invented and the technology 'journalists' say that now we will be 
>>>> able to store 10 billion songs on our 'ipods'.
>>>>
>>>> Why don't they say that we can now store one billion songs, and  
>>>> they won't have to sound like crap ?!!
>>>>
>>>> geoff
>>> German has a word, "zeitgeist", which has come to mean "the spirit of 
>>> the times."  Today's zeitgeist goes against quality. We would have to 
>>> hope for a renaissance of quality.
>>>
>>> Bob Morein
>>
>> You don't buy an iPod for quality, you buy it for convenience. If you 
>> want quality buy something that was designed for it.
>>
> Now this is amusing. It's hard to tell whether you are using "iPod" in a
> generic way or not.
> 
> People buy iPods for the name.  They buy mp3 players, the iPod being one
> of many types of mp3 players, for convenience.
> 
> "Quality" when referring to mp3 players is about durability.

Says who? We were talking about sound quality. Thanks for playing, though.