Billy Hetherington wrote:
I believe if Sony learns to push the right advertising buttons, they may
convince music pirates everywhere that MD is a much better method of storing
MP3 audio for portable playback. Have you ever priced Smart Media or
CompactFlash memory upgrades? Or the price of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
Does anyone get the feel that the market support for MD is reaching a very
critical juncture? Panasonic has declared MD a competitor format and will
have nothing to do with it, touting their MP3/solidstate portables as the
future of audio. What does Sony stand to
Does anyone know where there is a deck with both a minidisc and a CD-R
in it.. I want to be able to copy MD directly to CD without using a
computer at preferably greater than 1x, all the CD/MD decks I have seen
are CD players not CD-R
Thanks
Ben Hatton
Depends on the unit. If you had a JA30ES, like I do, and had to replace the
optical block, like I did, then you'd pay the AUD$300 to get it done too,
even though the unit was purchased factory second (scratch on the back of
the casing) for AUD$950.
I would have done it myself, but I was only
Tony Antoniou wrote:
I honestly don't see that being an issue. All this negativity may be
substantiated by the reaction of some of the major US retail chains, but I
think MD has a stronger future than what we give it credit for.
And if the companies would just get wise and come out with
What about pre-recs?
But nonetheless, working at a major electronics chain myself, I can quite
happily say that MD has a safe future, given the amount of people who come
in and buy blanks from me (and from the various branches that I've worked
at).
Anyway, why do we have to be so damn bleak
"Finaly it says that America owns the US market because of criminal
practises like flooding. "
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"Finaly it says that JAPAN owns the US market because of criminal practises
like flooding. "
sorry!
Billy Hetherington
PS - I hope this posting doesn't offend anyone! I am simply curious about
Tony Antoniou wrote,
| Anyway, why do we have to be so damn bleak about it? Why not just take it
| for granted and make the most of it, whether it has a future or not??
I'm a little bleak about this aspect: if MD vanishes in the US, yes, I can
buy order hardware and discs by mail order, but
I know this sounds dumb because I am equating a work of fiction to reality,
but I recently finished reading the Rising Sun by Michael Chricton. In this
book it is basically stated repeatedely that many technologies were
engineered in the U.S. (like TV and many computer technologies) and the
Over here in Sunny England, MD is slowly but surely finding its feet. All
the Virgin Megastores and HMV stores have MD aisles, all the chains (Tandy,
Dixon, Comet, Currys, PC-World, Richer Sounds, John Lewis, Index, Argos,
etc) sell MD portables, MD systems and MD separates...
This would not
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http://www.kheopsminidisc.com/
Sorry...
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I honestly don't see that being an issue. All this negativity may be
substantiated by the reaction of some of the major US retail chains, but I
think MD has a stronger future than what we give it credit for.
Adios,
LarZ
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:56:19 -0400
From: Eric Woudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MD: Future of MD
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Could you tell me where you heard this?
That was a paraphrase from the vice CEO of Panasonic corp. I was placed in
touch with him when I started asking around for sellers of MD
Greetings.
My beloved MZ-R50 is having problems.
It started about 2 weeks ago when I attempted to record a CD to my MD using a brand
new Minidisco disc. With about 8 min left on the MD, the MD unit itself started to
make very loud skipping and clicking noises. I hit stop and the MD started
I am not aware of any stand alone device that will let you play a MD and
record it to a CD.
Roger wrote:
Hey guys,
I have a bunch of MD's that I would like to burn onto CD's on my new
computer. I have an SB Live with SPDIF in/out and a MZ-R55. I realise
that I can't digitally hook my
The way my 510 was repaired, and some other horror stories I've heard on
this list, if it ain't under warranty, you aren't gonna get it repaired
anyway, 'cause the cost is prohibitive. Disposible, I guess. If it
breaks go get another one and cry a lot. IMHO.
I'm glad my 510 was under
Hello-
Is there a sound card/external device that allows
digital transfers between laptops and MD decks? I have
a Thinkpad 600E and would love to record w/o a desktop
PC. Thanks.
Steve
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 08:26:48 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
I have a bunch of MD's that I would like to burn onto CD's on my new
computer. I have an SB Live with SPDIF in/out and a MZ-R55. I realise
that I can't digitally hook my portable up to my computer so I was
Hey guys,
I have a bunch of MD's that I would like to burn onto CD's on my new
computer. I have an SB Live with SPDIF in/out and a MZ-R55. I realise
that I can't digitally hook my portable up to my computer so I was
wondering what the forum thinks the best solution is for me? Should I
just
bla bla bla erased
Someone also mentioned that they thought a USB drive running at faster
than
real-time would cause the MD format to take off MD, sadly, is not
realistically going to be write capable at much faster than x2 due to the
nature of the media and it's thermal dissipation
I find the Sharp 831 plays brilliantly but records badly ... but then again
my only experience of MD recorders is my Sharp 831
But I've played back discs recorded on standalone MD decks and they sound
FAR superior to anything I've recorded (by whatever means) on my 831 . :(
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At 13:32 10/05/00 -0400, you wrote:
what about Sony's CD-MD combo that writes at 4x?
have there been issues with that? I vaugely recall guidelines for
getting 4x, but most of them seemed to be stuff like the cd not
being balanced due to labels, or excessive cover art on the disc.
I don't
again, an avid fan of the MzR-90/91...if u need recording capabilities,
battery life is fantastic, it is small even though that wasnt a requirement
and inside the nice menu system there is a feature that turns the headphone
jack into a true audio out...just a suggestion hope this helps.
My
sorry and I know this doesnt really apply but I dont know how or even if this
is possible but is it possible to recieve this list in digest format? ?
tks in advance.
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what about Sony's CD-MD combo that writes at 4x?
have there been issues with that? I vaugely recall guidelines for
getting 4x, but most of them seemed to be stuff like the cd not
being balanced due to labels, or excessive cover art on the disc.
I don't recall there being a problem with the MD
Albert Tanone wrote:
Does that mean that the survival of MD in North America is tied to the
# of people w/ a computer vs. audiophiles? (Actually, audiophiles don't
use MD but
but musicians do!
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A Palm Pilot with MD that can play MP3, ATRAC,
Not just American technology...
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| Does anyone know where there is a deck with both a minidisc
| and a CD-R in it..
You could use an MD deck plus a CDR recorder; the transfer
runs at 1x but there's no computer involved.
Note ... be careful of SCMS limitations. If the original MD
was recorded digitally, you *may* not be
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 13:57:10 -0500
From: "Matthew Wall" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MD: RE: Future of MD
bla bla bla erased
i disagree and say this last statement is wrong, sony already has a 4x
copying unit out
Sony's drive works at 4x CD speed...that is important. The MD side is still
You are correct the MD data mechanism is not an issue. As I said, if the
disc can write at a raw 2x then the audio can be written at 10x (due to ~5:1
compression of ATRAC). The issue with that sort of high speed compression is
that it is either not going to sound very good, or it isn't going to
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Billy Hetherington wrote:
I digitally record between an MZ-R90 and a D-EJ710
discman, and I would like
to do CDTEXT copying, but cannot locate the appropriate
cable
As I understand the instructions, you have to press buttons to copy the
title FOR EACH TRACK. Given that
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Shawn R. Lin wrote:
better way to get MP3 integrated with MD. Why MP3? It seems to be all
the rage, and could be something that really helps MD go main stream.
One of the key issue that I see keeps popping up is that "You need to
spend a few hundred dollars for a
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