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From: "Timothy P. Stockman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 4:47 AM
Subject: MD: Sony MD-Cam - 650MB - 4.5 hr audio!
> Video Direct is now selling the Sony MD Camera with the
> new 650MB MD drive.
> Among other things, it will record 4.5 hours of audio!
> http://www.video-direct.com/sony/mddiscam/mddiscam.html
Okay, and i think there is a real nice hint behind that...
Reading through this products' properties, this little wonder is eqipped
with an ethernet interface to copy/move the internal Data-MDs content
to the computer.
This can be MPEG Video, and off course the ATRAC data, too. Since
this MD-Camcorder plays back regular MDs also, there finally might be
a (rather expensively - around US $ 1.700 today) *backdoor* to get
the original ATRAC contents of a MD into a computer, for editing,
storing, and maybe even pushing this back to a regular MD in faster-than
real time.
Though i'm sure this wasn't in Sony's (and all the music industry's) intend,
they most probably did everything they knew to prevent this - but shurely
this won't stop our fine young friends in the "universe of informatics"
hacking this sooner or later...;-))
Since ATRAC is a data format like any other, very soon some useful
interface and editing software might be among us - i'm dreaming of such
since i got my first MD recorder. If only i could afford to buy this MD-Cam
to lend it to someone who could understand it's possibilities for a PC-user
and create a little programme, ripping CDs to ATRAC for example....
Keep on rocking,
Muck
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