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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4029)	11/14/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 10072

A 53 meg (average) CD quality song can be compressed with MP3 to about 3.5 megs. So that's approx. 11 songs per disk. What's wrong with that? Buy a CD, most songs suck, you may like 2 songs on a complete CD. Add the songs YOU want to the disk.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4029)	11/14/1998 4:23:00 AM
From: Dale Stempson	Respond to of 10072

There's a brief mention of Iomega in an interesting Smart Money article on DD stocks (thanks for the link Gottfried): The Disk Drive Carousel smartmoney.com <snip> "Even the dog of dogs, Iomega (IOM), is up over 100% since bottoming at 2.93 last month." <snip> If Iomega is the dog of dogs, I wonder what SyQuest is? Regards - Dale

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (4029)	11/14/1998 10:01:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

>>MP3 uses 10 to 1 data compression, I believe. Therefore, the 40MB Vapor! format is inadequate to hold as much audio as a CD. You would need 65MB of Vapor! to hold as many minutes of audio as a 650MB CD.<< Elaine - Wow. You are outdoing yourself today. Please stop. I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts. Would you rather have an MP3 player that holds 60 minutes of music, like the Diamond unit? That would be great. It has a total capacity of 60 minutes. Still less than the capacity of a CD, I notice. Then when you are sick of replaying the same 60 minutes worth of music, you can just go home and download a new 60 minute set of tunes. How convenient. Or perhaps you would rather use CompactFlash as your MP3 medium, and pay upwards of a hundred bucks for 32 megs. Once again, not as much capacity of a CD, but hey, you can just buy two of them. Then it would only cost, say, two hundred and fifty clams to get a bit less capacity than twenty to thirty dollars worth of Clik! disks. You have missed your calling, Elaine. You should be in marketing. - Allen