CD-ROM : Panasonic KXL-D720
richard
>
>I was trying to connect the Panasonic portable CD-ROM (KXL-D720) to my
>TI5000 and was not able to get any audio. I was told by the Panasonic
>technical support people that I need to run a line from the CD-ROM phone
>jack to the TI's audio input jack to get audio. To me, this sounds like a
>design problem with the Panasonic CD-ROM. I wonder if anyone use this
>CD-ROM with any other notebook encountering the same problem?
>I am thinking of returning the Panasoinc, want to know if there is any
>other good portable CD-ROM out there?
Does your notebook have a soundcard built-in? Is the sound card
working? Does the player otherwise work - are you getting video or
data or whatever else in on the cd-rom you are trying to play? If so,
cd-rom's with sound *should* work just fine - just use the pcmcia card
to connect the player to the notebook.
i've tried the panasonic on about half a dozen notebooks running
win3.1 (using the drivers supplied with the unit) and win95 (using the
beta win95 drivers), and it's worked fine every time. (other than on
my notebook, since i don't have a sound card).
Drew Kowal
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>I was trying to connect the Panasonic portable CD-ROM (KXL-D720) to my
>TI5000 and was not able to get any audio. I was told by the Panasonic
>technical support people that I need to run a line from the CD-ROM phone
>jack to the TI's audio input jack to get audio. To me, this sounds like a
>design problem with the Panasonic CD-ROM. I wonder if anyone use this
>CD-ROM with any other notebook encountering the same problem?
>I am thinking of returning the Panasoinc, want to know if there is any
>other good portable CD-ROM out there?
No problems here, using a Midwest Micro Soundbook (TS30as) with the
Panasonic. Sorry, can't help with your TI5000.
--
drew
Joel Rodriguez
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>
>I was trying to connect the Panasonic portable CD-ROM (KXL-D720) to my
>TI5000 and was not able to get any audio. I was told by the Panasonic
>technical support people that I need to run a line from the CD-ROM phone
>jack to the TI's audio input jack to get audio. To me, this sounds like a
>design problem with the Panasonic CD-ROM. I wonder if anyone use this
>CD-ROM with any other notebook encountering the same problem?
>I am thinking of returning the Panasoinc, want to know if there is any
>other good portable CD-ROM out there?
Um, Beavis. Obviously your a new comer to our world of laptops. No, wait
must be a new comer to computers in general. The reason why your not getting
any audio is because your missing one very important piece; an audio cable.
It's not panasonic that fucked up it's people like you that are always wanting
perfect shit. Well here's a little taste of reality: NOTHING EVER WORKS THE
WAY YOU WANT IT TO. I have the panasonic drive and I thinks it's pretty good.
But the difference between you and me is that I knew that I was buy a SCSI
drive that had its limitations. Anyway before you go a cuss at the poor people
at the retail store why don't you just read up on what your buying and stop being
such a baby.
Your Computer literate friend,
El Mariachi
richard
Rodriguez) wrote:
What in the world are you talking about? I've tried my panasonic
cdrom on about six machines - just plugged in the pcmcia card,
installed the drivers, and rebooted. Put in a cdrom and, click on a
few things, and pictures appear on the screen and sound comes from the
speakers. No additional cables, no difficult setup. Just a
soundblaster or equivalent soundcard built into the computer.
According to the manual, you do need an audio cable for *some* cdroms
and audio cds. See page 16 of the manual. However, none of the
cdroms I tried required an audio cable. ymmv.
Greg Marciniak
|> In article <4470c4$c...@news1.usa.pipeline.com>, ew...@usa.pipeline.com(Eric Wong) says:
|> >
|> >
|> >I was trying to connect the Panasonic portable CD-ROM (KXL-D720) to my
|> >TI5000 and was not able to get any audio. I was told by the Panasonic
|> >technical support people that I need to run a line from the CD-ROM phone
|> >jack to the TI's audio input jack to get audio. To me, this sounds like a
|> >design problem with the Panasonic CD-ROM. I wonder if anyone use this
|> >CD-ROM with any other notebook encountering the same problem?
|> >I am thinking of returning the Panasoinc, want to know if there is any
|> >other good portable CD-ROM out there?
|>
|> Um, Beavis. Obviously your a new comer to our world of laptops. No, wait
|> must be a new comer to computers in general. The reason why your not getting
|> any audio is because your missing one very important piece; an audio cable.
|> It's not panasonic that fucked up it's people like you that are always wanting
|> perfect shit. Well here's a little taste of reality: NOTHING EVER WORKS THE
|> WAY YOU WANT IT TO. I have the panasonic drive and I thinks it's pretty good.
|> But the difference between you and me is that I knew that I was buy a SCSI
|> drive that had its limitations. Anyway before you go a cuss at the poor people
|> at the retail store why don't you just read up on what your buying and stop being
|> such a baby.
|>
|> El Mariachi
Well if he is Beavis, it is quite clear that you are Butthead. You need
to learn a little more about compassion, you may not be so perfect in the
future.
Greg Marciniak
David Leitch
: Does your notebook have a soundcard built-in? Is the sound card
: working? Does the player otherwise work - are you getting video or
: data or whatever else in on the cd-rom you are trying to play? If so,
: cd-rom's with sound *should* work just fine - just use the pcmcia card
: to connect the player to the notebook.
: i've tried the panasonic on about half a dozen notebooks running
: win3.1 (using the drivers supplied with the unit) and win95 (using the
: beta win95 drivers), and it's worked fine every time. (other than on
: my notebook, since i don't have a sound card).
Are we talking about .AVI files or CD Audio disks? CD Audio disks need
the extra cable from the Panasonic jack to the line input jack of the
soundcard. .AVI files should play through the sound card with no extra cable.
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Fringe Ryder
Book. (i.e. are you talking sound recorded in CD format or in computer
data format?)
If you're talking about CD format, such as playing a CD on the unit or
on just a few CD-ROMs, yes, you need headphones, external amplified
speakers, or to feed it into the audio in (plus mixing software loaded.)
If you're talking computer-data, such as used by Cinemania, Myst, and
practically all other computer games, the sound doesn't come out of
the CD-ROM unit. It's synthesized by the computer, and is the
domain of the sound card. If the sound card is properly installed
(via software in Windows), it should work fine.
Eric Wong (ew...@usa.pipeline.com) wrote:
:
: I was trying to connect the Panasonic portable CD-ROM (KXL-D720) to my
: TI5000 and was not able to get any audio. I was told by the Panasonic
: technical support people that I need to run a line from the CD-ROM phone
: jack to the TI's audio input jack to get audio. To me, this sounds like a
: design problem with the Panasonic CD-ROM. I wonder if anyone use this
: CD-ROM with any other notebook encountering the same problem?
: I am thinking of returning the Panasoinc, want to know if there is any
: other good portable CD-ROM out there?
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Mark Gemmell
I too have a TI5000 and the Panasonic CD ROM, and I have the same trouble.
According to the Panasonic manual it is correct to expect to be able to
listen to AUDIO CDs though the in-built soundcard in the portable WITHOUT
any extra cables. How can this be you may ask?
Well, PCMCIA have audio channels defined, and there are apparently audio
channels in the SCSI interface with the Panasonic too. Otherwise they
wouldn't mention it in the manual.
Anyway, we shall see if it's possible, but it clearly says so in the
manual and that is why I expect it to work. If it can't be done then the
manual should be changed.
Cheers
...mark...
richard
>Hope you guys are still reading this thread.
>
>I too have a TI5000 and the Panasonic CD ROM, and I have the same trouble.
>
>According to the Panasonic manual it is correct to expect to be able to
>listen to AUDIO CDs though the in-built soundcard in the portable WITHOUT
>any extra cables. How can this be you may ask?
this is not what my manual says. mine says audio cd's require a
cable. cd-rom sound does not require a cable.