Re: MD: Anyone had any experience with the Marantz MD unit
"P. Grover Cleveland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I saw a Marantz "professional" MD recorder on the web. It had the | same form and feel as the Sony D10 DAT recorder. Does anyone have | any experience with these? I never see them discussed. I just got mine about two weeks ago. It's the Marantz PMD650, a pro portable machine. Whaddya wanna know about it? Jim R. 02/02/00 2057 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: MD and Constitutional Law
I know you guys are trying to hash out an issue which is kind of "thorny" and complex, but it sure will be nice to see the MD list go back to being the MD list and stop being the Constitutional Law list. Jim R. 01/02/00 1340 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Dropouts on minidiscs
It has been my experience that dropouts are usually a *player* problem and not a *disc* problem. (This is not to say that all discs will be problem-free.) My Sharp MD-X5 developed a distaste for some Maxell discs a while back, yet the same discs played and recorded just fine in other machines. Occasionally, I found that just turning the Sharp unit off and on cleared up the problem. Someone gave me some Memorex MD blanks over the Christmas holidays, and I popped one into the Sharp to do an aircheck off FM radio. I came back several minutes later and discovered that the disc had 40 or more tracks, and on playing it I heard numerous "dropouts." I erased it, and used it to record a CD in my Sony MXD-D3. So far, so good. It recorded fine. I played the very same disc in the Sharp, and it played without a problem. I don't want to give the impression that the Sharp MD-X5 is a bad machine. It has a hallowed place atop my computer hutch, and whatever troubles I've had with it can be expressed in fractions of a percent. Nonetheless, it just doesn't like some MDs. The only *true* dropout I had was years ago on a Fuji MD 74. I simply "isolated" the dropout by putting a track mark on each side of it, erased the rest of the disc, recorded on the blank part, and then erased the dropout track. Anyway, before you rush to blame the MD for a dropout, consider that it might be a "mismatch" between the disc and a particular machine. Jim Resinger 12/27/99 0551 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MXD-D3 Read Errors
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:41:03 -0600 From: "Daryl O." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MD: MXD-D3 Read Errors After I read your post, I grabbed a handful of MDs which were recorded on various machines, and as far back as May of 1993. They all worked just fine. It sounds to me like you probably have a defective unit. I had my MDS-JE510 swapped out for an MXD-D3 today because Best Buy's service centre decided to junk out the JE510, which was in service for the third time. Although I have zero confidence in Sony products these days, I figured that my MD problems would at least be done with for the foreseeable future. Boy, was I wrong! When I hooked my new deck up, I was disappointed to find that it would not play *any* MD's -- that's right -- not *any*. Every MD I insert produces the same message: "Read Error; C-13". Has anyone else experienced the same problem with his MXD-D3?. |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MD: MXD-D3 and CD-TEXT from recorded CDRs
I recently purchased a Sony MXD-D3 and in trying out various things with it I noticed that when I copied a CDR that I had recorded on my computer with the cdrdao program that had CD-TEXT on it that the MXD-D3 would not copy the CD-TEXT (it flashed a message "Text Protected" at the start of each track). I then copied the original prerecorded CD and it successfully copied the CD-TEXT as well. The only thing I can confirm is that trying to copy a CD with CD-TEXT on my MXD-D3 resulted in a "text protected" message. My CDR recorders (the HHB-800 and the HHB-850) are audio recorders, not computer-based, so I rather doubt that any CD-TEXT is recorded on to the CDRs. Jim Resinger 12/12/99 1018 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Copy-Proof CDs--Again
On 8/23/99 I posted an article from STEREO REVIEW'S SOUND AND VISION about a new "scheme" to make CDs copy-proof. Here's another article from POPULAR SCIENCE along the same lines. -- Copy-Proof CDs By this time next year, new coding on music CDs might prevent them from being copied on CD recorders -- both those in PCs and in stand-alone audio CD recorders. And because of this same coding, audiophiles whose high-end components send a digital signal from their CD players to a receiver or amplifier for better digital-to-analog conversion might find their systems reduced to the level of regular players with analog outputs. These potential limitations are part of the AudioLok Red copy-protection technology being developed by U.K.-based C-Dilla, a subsidiary of Macrovision whose anti-copy system currently prevents videotapes, DVDs, and pay-per-view movies from being recorded on VCRs. AudioLok blocks a PC's CD-ROM drive from playing music CDs, thereby foiling attempts to copy them or post them on the Internet. AudioLok tricks CD-ROM drives into treating the disc as faulty by writing intentional errors on the CD. Audio CD players ignore these and play the disc as normal. But CD-ROM drives, with more stringent error detection for PC data, reject the CD as unreadable. C-Dilla also claims that it can prevent AudioLok discs played in regular CD players from being copied on audio CD recorders -- although the company doesn't say how. But since audio and CD recorders lack the availability to copy CD-ROMs, passing the signal directly through the CD player's digital outputs with the decoy errors intact would foil recording. But this AudioLok application is likely to infuriate consumers, since the price of their audio CD recorders and blank audio CD discs include a royalty payment for the privilege of making digital recordings of copyrighted works. Meanwhile, other AudioLok errors transmitted in the digital signal from a CD player's optical or coaxial output jacks prevent the signal from being decoded by the high-end digital-to-analog converters that are integrated into top-shelf audio receivers and amplifiers. The fact that AudioLok can render these products inoperable will likely elicit a challenge from the electronics industry, which regularly opposes any technology that would defeat product functions consumers have paid for. -- Stephen A. Booth (POPULAR SCIENCE, October 1999. p. 59) |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Copy-Proof CDs
I thought you might be interested in this. It bodes ill for all of us. -- COPY-PROOF CDs C-Dilla, recently acquired by Macrovision, is developing technology that is said to prevent a computer's CD-ROM drive from playing music CDs, making it impossible to copy them with a CD-R drive or post them on the Internet. Slated for introduction next year, the AudioLok system is said to also prohibit copies from being made in consumer CD recorders -- and even to prevent a digital signal from being passed through a player's digital outputs. The system works by adding false codes to a music CD so that it looks like a CD-ROM to a computer The codes are ignored by CD players, but the discs appear corrupt and unreadable on CD-ROM drives. So although the recording industry's Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) has reached the reluctant conclusion (albeit with the help of court decisions) that consumers should be allowed to copy digital content onto storage media, your right to do so isn't yet fully secure. --Brian C. Fenton. "Random Play." STEREO REVIEW'S SOUND VISION. September 1999. p. 16 -- |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MD: Minidisco?
Has anyone had problems getting to the Minidisco web site lately? For the last two days it's been impossible to log on to either Minidisco or their sister web site, Digidisco. Jim R. 08/14/99 0846 |"I have always imagined that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | paradise will be a kind of | library." | --Jorge Luis Borges - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
