Posted by fred-bloggs on 07/28/06 12:32

NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote in
news:1vayg.7476$uG1.41045@wagner.videotron.net:

> 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.
>

Sony are claiming 7 hours playback.

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fred

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