Posted by FatKat on 07/27/06 23:01

NRen2k5 wrote:
> FatKat wrote:
> > fred-bloggs wrote:
> >> "FatKat" <robynari@juno.com> wrote in
> >> news:1154029450.333187.17950@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:
> >>
> >>> Mike Walsh wrote:
> >>>> The reason that you get only 80 minutes on a CD is you are making a
> >>>> music CD. You need create a data CD, i.e. burn the MP3 files directly
> >>>> to the CD without uncompressing the music. A data CD with MP3 files
> >>>> will hold 10 hours or more of music.
> >>>>
> >>> Reading this I wondered if there's a portable audio DVD player in the
> >>> works - something the size of any handheld CD player but able to play
> >>> mp3 files off of a DVD. Just one disk will hold more than a 4gb Nano,
> >>> without anybody having to mess with iTunes or AAC.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Such as the Sony D-VE7000S DVD Walkman?
> >
> > Interesting, but I was thinking of something with the form factor of
> > today's handheld CD Players. For the most part, I use music to jog
> > with - are portable DVD players more prone to skipping than CD players?
>
> Probably. But I think the main problem is power. The laser used for DVD
> reading just drains too much to make a DVD player the size of a CD
> player feasible.
>
Interesting. How much more power are we talking about? I just
remember that when I got my first CD player about 19 years ago, it came
with an external battery pack holding 4 AA's. Ofcourse contemporary
players get by on half that.

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