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Minidiscs are pitifulMinidiscs are pitifulPosted Nov 16, 2005 13:57 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Don't want a rootkit? Stop buying from Sony... by hazelsct Parent article: Sony's rootkit: an update Minidisc is the most stupid flop since DAT, at least in the consumer space; in the professional arena the format is alive thanks to other companies. I bought a professional model and got burned: badly thought out, poor battery life and is not so hot recording live audio. And they were supposed to replace walkmen! Meanwhile, Apple, Rio and even obscure outfits like Inovix are selling like crazy to fill the void. Not everything from Sony is so bad: e.g. miniDV seems to be a pretty open format, and consumer video cameras are OK. But in many other areas all there is left of Sony is the high pricing.
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Minidiscs are pitiful Posted Nov 17, 2005 12:12 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Not everything from Sony is so bad: e.g. miniDV seems to be a pretty open format, and consumer video cameras are OK. miniDV was never SONY format. Digital8 was. And... as usual: it's gone. Now SONY is trying to show that it had miniDV in mind all along, but that's not the case. It does prove that SONY can develop pretty open devices - when pressured enough. By default SONY will develop something proprietary and closed...
Minidiscs are pitiful Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:09 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] Minidisc is still alive in the rather small niche of (often clandestine) live recording. Most tapers use MD since it is relatively cheap, available and of decent quality despite the horrid ATRAC format.Very well-to-do tapers use DAT which has widespread use in professional recording. Unfortunately it costs an arm and a leg (although, realistically, not that much more expensive than the high end iPods...) and is somewhat obscure. People who can afford DAT often know people and can get a soundboard feed, the result is basically studio-quality live recordings. Smart frugal tapers use DAPs that have good built-in recording features (iPods unfortunately have crippled recording with the standard firmware), like (plug!) Rockbox running on an iRiver H1xx. Lossless, high quality recording up to the limits of the built-in 20 or 40GB hard drive.
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