MiniDisc's Saviour! Hi-MD !!!!! (1 Viewer)

[Fosweb]

I've always thought Mp3 was above MD, but because of the fact that you could store more with mp3.

But Sony is bringing out a new MD flavour, called Hi-MD. It works like a Net-MD, costs the same, and uses ONE GIG (1GB) discs! And these discs cost $7USD each!

Quote from: http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/4270

Like standard MiniDiscs, Hi-MD discs are small, durable and re-recordable up to a million times without degradation in audio quality. Each 1GB disc can hold up to 45 hours of music compressed at 48 kilobits per second (kbps). In addition, Hi-MD media can store PC files, including Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and JPEG images. Hi-MD discs are expected to cost about $7 each when they become available in April.

So 1GB on a Net MD!

Here's another sony site with some info:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/News/Press/200401/04-001E/

Here's a forum with some amazing looking pics and news about this, you should definitely check this out!
http://www.minidisct.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=206722#post206722

It looks as though they will be using Hi-MD for a camera as well! (check this pics on that forum)

Wow! Style!

 

[tooheyz]

hahah are you in any way working for sony?
sounds like a sales ad!

LOL

yeah sounds good

 

[Winston]

HAHA sounds like Fosweb is working at Sony

well it's not as a biggest breakthrough because i mean it's only an additional 300 megs since 700 meg MD's are available.

 

[tooheyz]

yeah i know
md prices are down, dooown, dooooown....

muaHUAhuah sony is trying to push mds, coz no one is really buying em no more coz of mp3 players, and how versatile they are... and cheap.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

Originally posted by Winston
HAHA sounds like Fosweb is working at Sony

well it's not as a biggest breakthrough because i mean it's only an additional 300 megs since 700 meg MD's are available.

normal MD's are 177 megs..
and the 700 megs one are only used in MD camcorders which dun work in MD players
I reckon 1 Gb is a significant breakthrough for music... cos its also new tech.. and their ATRAC3 plus will realli make it worthwhile..

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by +Po1ntDeXt3r+
normal MD's are 177 megs..
and the 700 megs one are only used in MD camcorders which dun work in MD players
I reckon 1 Gb is a significant breakthrough for music... cos its also new tech.. and their ATRAC3 plus will realli make it worthwhile..

No they're not they are 700 MB, it even says it on mine, maybe my one says it for some reason weird :S

 

[juggernaut]

yeh sick i bought a net md the other day good work

 

[tooheyz]

hahah which one did ya buy and for how much?

 

[victorling]

i got a sony recordable md
but it shows the phrase"LP2" evertime i insert a particular md disk
and it cant play it...but my md hi-fi can ...i am lost...

 

[juggernaut]

net md walkman mz-n510
dunno my mum got it for me

 

[Fosweb]

Na - I dont work for Sony.

But I'd like one of these.

You have to have a Hi-MD player to use these discs by the look of it though.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Fosweb
Na - I dont work for Sony.

But I'd like one of these.

You have to have a Hi-MD player to use these discs by the look of it though.

Yeah... uno i've been holding back ever since MZ-N1 and waiting and waiting for a unit with backlight on the actual unit... argghh

 

[pigs_can_fly]

Originally posted by victorling
i got a sony recordable md
but it shows the phrase"LP2" evertime i insert a particular md disk
and it cant play it...but my md hi-fi can ...i am lost...

u prbly have an old md player which can't read md tracks recorded in LP2 or LP4 compression. LP2 means u can hold twice as much data, at lower rates of quality and LP4 means 4 tims as much. they were introduced about the same time Net md's came out or just before. taht particular md disc of yours would have been recorded by someone at LP2 and that's why u can't read it. dunno why u can in ur hi-fi though, maybe cos its newer?

 

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ahaha

my N1 seem out of date now


ah crap..

should have got mum to get that

too late now

 

[pigs_can_fly]

fuk u, i've only got a 707, can't believe domayne was still selling it at an outrageous price

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

Originally posted by Winston
No they're not they are 700 MB, it even says it on mine, maybe my one says it for some reason weird :S

www.minidisc.org .. explains it all.. umm where can i get these 700mb ones? and r they longer than 80 mins?

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by +Po1ntDeXt3r+
www.minidisc.org .. explains it all.. umm where can i get these 700mb ones? and r they longer than 80 mins?

im not sure becoz i told my uncle to grab me a box of blanks overseas lol...

 

[juggernaut]

how shit is sonicstage!!!!!

 

[Majesty]

No thanks i'll stick to gettin an iRiver and play ogg vorbis/mp3 etc More bang for your buck..

 

[pigs_can_fly]

is it? then openmg must be even worse