MiniDisc Community Pages News for 8 August 2000 o Glen Wintringham points out Japanese announcements for Onkyo's MD LP [1]Intec 155 and [2]FR-S77/V77 bookshelf systems. He also finds English PDF manuals for the Onkyo [3]MD-2321 and [4]MD-185X decks. [1] http://www.onkyo.co.jp/what/newsrelease/intec155_nr.htm [2] http://www.onkyo.co.jp/what/newsrelease/fr-s77_nr.htm [3] http://www.onkyo.co.jp/www_e/manual/english/md2321_e.pdf [4] http://www.onkyo.co.jp/www_e/manual/english/md185x_e.pdf o In the [5]machine translation of Sony's MXD-D5C announcement, they note that CD->MDLP dubbing runs at 2X (vs. 4X for normal CD->MD dubbing) and that Type-R mode (for ``Recursive''?) is not available in LP mode or when high-speed dubbing. [5] http://www.minidisc.org/MXD-D5C_translation.htm o Zarlingo, Ho and Davich (sounds like a few lawyers!) point out that Target (a US, mass market discount retailer) is now carrying MD gear (Sony MZ-R70PC) and Memorex blanks. o Planet Minidisc notes that they too carry the [6]Xitel MDPort-DG1 USB to TOSlink audio adapter. [6] http://store.yahoo.com/planetminidisc/mdport-dg1.html o F. Reitano finds a further [7]MinidiscNow footnote. If you've lost money with them, now's the time to make contact about receiving a refund (do "cc" the FTC). [7] http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/07/minidisccmp.htm MiniDisc Community Pages News for 9 August 2000 o The Korean MD page posts a bevy of [1]Panasonic SJ-MR200 snapshots, including a [2]touch-panel closeup shot. Anyone knowing how well the touch panel really works is invited to [3]report in. [1] http://minidisc.co.kr/md/mdr/pana/mr200/ [2] http://minidisc.co.kr/md/mdr/pana/mr200/mr200_3.jpg [3] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] o Sony gives a polite and, [4]ultimately hopeful reply to the End Search petition. Thank you all again for your help! [4] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_endsearch_reply.html o Stefan Zimmer has [5]MD-Cover software for Deja MD Cover. [5] http://www.zone-24113.purespace.de/ o Minidisco has a [6]garage sale page. [6] http://www.minidisco.com/miniordergarage.html MiniDisc Community Pages News for 10 August 2000 o Crish Mariathas forwards a photo from Josh Pelland (who's ordering the unit from [1]Audiodirect ) of [2]Aiwa's AM-HX70 player, with 67 hour battery life (NiMH+AAx1(?)). [1] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] http://www.minidisc.org/aiwa_hx70_package.jpg o Core-Sound now offers [3]Jecklin and Schneider foam discs (along with an interesting [4]technical note covering them ) for making more lifelike stereo recordings by modeling the human head-transfer-function. Sticker-shock warning: the prices appear to have foam in them as well. [3] http://www.core-sound.com/jecklin.html [4] http://www.josephson.com/tn5.html MiniDisc Community Pages News for 11 August 2000 o [1]Repair QA #4 from David Popovits, in which he examines [2]what makes the MZ-R50 a gem. [1] http://www.minidisc.org/repair_q4.html [2] http://www.minidisc.org/repair_q4.html#mzr50 MiniDisc Community Pages News for 12 August 2000 o Feeling overwhelmed by the 30-60 min. audio capacity of today's solid state players? Fabian La Maestra points out [1]HitClips MicroMusic, a product for pre-teens that stores a single minute of audio on a chip. [1] http://www.zdtv.com/zdtv/freshgear/products/story/0,3679,2464987,00.html MiniDisc Community Pages News for 13 August 2000 o MD competition? Ilwoong Pyo points out the [1]MET 8cm CD/MP3 player, though not tiny (98x93x23mm), nor particuarly long playing (4 hours battery life) it does offer 3-6 hours of MP3 audio capacity on cheap mini-CD media. (No price or production info given, unit is not a recorder). [1] http://www.met.com.tw/eng/products/mp3.htm o Blast from the past: The Korean MD page adds snapshots with (huge) closeups of the old (ca. 1995) [2]Sony MZ-R3 and [3]Aiwa AM-F3 portable recorders. [2] http://minidisc.co.kr/md/mdr/sony/r3 [3] http://minidisc.co.kr/md/mdr/aiwa/f3 o Pining for an MZ-R50? Erwin Lee points out that they're still [4]available new from Vocalinks for US$380 (!). [5]Ebay has several as well, at more reasonable prices. [4] http://www.vocalinks.com/Products/Mobile/Sony_MZ-R50/sony_mz-r50.html [5] http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&query=minidisc+r50&x=15&y=14 ======================================================================== Our MiniDiscs are better than their MiniDiscs. Really. Okay, they're the same. But we're really nice! http://www.minidisco.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MiniDisc Weekly News for 13 August 2000
MiniDisc Community Pages Weekly News Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:02:00 -0700