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Write Once? Garbage. I know of a 3rd party company that is currently
developing an MD2 data drive. 650MB, 2MB/sec xfer rate, backward compatible
with both original MD-Audio and MD-Data, i.Link interface. It will have
ATRAC and ATRAC3 onboard but will also operate as pure data, like a standard
CD-RW drive. These other formats all miss on one feature or another:
recordability (MP3), editability (Write-Once??), usability (tape???) etc.
Only MD puts it all in one package, and with the 650MB discs you'll have the
option of recording pure PCM audio or ATRAC compressed, or any other
compression format that comes along.
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun
http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:58:43 +0100
> From: Javier Marcet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hello fellow MiniDisc users,
> I had never thought about buying an MP3 player..., until now. If you
> check http://www.dataplay.com/ you'll see the Miniature Disc. A little
> disc (very MD-like) of 32mm (not much larger than a quarter), and
> which holds 250 or 500 MBytes (there are of both sizes). They'll begin
> to sell on next Fall (2001), and will be price $5-$12 depending on
> pack size. (What a shame for Iomega, with their shitty Click, only
> 40MBytes and much more expensive, besides slower and I think bigger).
>
> They seem an MD clone, as there'll be pre-recorded media, as well
> as blank discs which you'll be able to record on your computer. The
> formats supported are:
>
> Write Once (WO), Multi Session
> Pre-Mastered (ROM)
> Hybrid (ROM and WO)
>
> The transfer rate is around 1 MByte/sec (Read/Write), and the
> wavelength of the laser is 650nm (for recording and playback).
>
> All this, together with 3.5g of weight, and 33.53x39.5x3.05mm
> (WxLxH) of size, I see on it a total MD killer.
>
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