Instant Replay

[Musicradio]

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm looking for
a better way to haul the music to Parties, etc.

I am considering a laptop with some sort of software.

But then I saw a 360 Systems "instant Replay" machine.
I used a few years ago at a station -- but do you think it
would work for a system for portable music?

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[cranium]

> As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm looking for
> a better way to haul the music to Parties, etc.
>
> I am considering a laptop with some sort of software.
>
> But then I saw a 360 Systems "instant Replay" machine.
> I used a few years ago at a station -- but do you think it
> would work for a system for portable music?
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>

Use a laptop...get 'em at Tiger Direct.com for $600...Instant Replays are far more expensive and less user friendly for your purpose.

 

[Les]

> Use a laptop...get 'em at Tiger Direct.com for
> $600...Instant Replays are far more expensive and less user
> friendly for your purpose.

If you use a laptop, buy two and duplicate your music on
the second one.

Laptops are durable but not bullet-proof. If yours fails at
a major event you MIGHT try holding it in front of your face
to prevent a shot from the crowd from killing you but you'd
be better off if you had a backup set up and ready to plug
in to replace the failed one very, very quickly....faster
than a speeding bullet!
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[Musicradio]

> > Use a laptop...get 'em at Tiger Direct.com for
> > $600...Instant Replays are far more expensive and less
> user
> > friendly for your purpose.
>
> If you use a laptop, buy two and duplicate your music on
> the second one.
>

How often do laptops fail? I guess it would depend on how you use it,
right?

 

[Les]

> How often do laptops fail? I guess it would depend on how
> you use it,
> right?

Laptops never fail...except when your life depends on it.

As when you fly 5,000 miles to do a critical presntation and
all your graphics are in the computer whose hard drive crashed.
Been there: done that.

I have two failed units sitting on the bench within 50-feet
of where I sit each associated with a very unhappy newsie!
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God save us from those who would save us from ourselves! P-l-e-a-s-e!!!!!</P>

 

[jesseg]

> Laptops never fail...except when your life depends on it.
> As when you fly 5,000 miles to do a critical presntation and
> all your graphics are in the computer whose hard drive
> crashed.
> Been there: done that.
>
> I have two failed units sitting on the bench within 50-feet
> of where I sit each associated with a very unhappy newsie!


You can get (TWO) brand new Dell laptops for about $900 right now. You won't catch me playing Battlefield2 on em, but they have PLEANTY of balls for automation, and pleanty left over for processing such as SoundSolution2, OmniaAX, some directx plugs, or whatever.