Topic: New Minidiscs?

[John Kelly]

I was just looking at sonicsense's web page, and they're selling 140mb minidiscs.  They're pretty damn expensive, but if they work in my md recorder I may have to pick up a pack for when I need to stealth.  2 hrs and 20 minutes is a lot better than 80, and would probably eliminate tape flips...

Any thoughts?
http://www.sonicsense.com/minidisk.htm

[DaryanLenz]

Indeed, they are uber exspensive for now...probably won't last very long though!  Now if you MD'ers could get rid of that compression garbage, you would be in da business!

Daryan

[John Kelly]

Well I don't consider myself an "MDer" anymore, as I tape on my iBook.  But I don't have a DAT to stealth with, and I can't see myself ever getting one.  

I figure since you can write over an MD, I could just reuse 'em over and over.  I'm still waiting on an email from SonicSense to see if they'd actually work with my Sony, though...

[busknuckle]

I'm pretty sure that's a "data only" type md. Not for use to record audio. I could be mistaken.

[John Kelly]

But does that mean it wont work?  Data DATs are used in recorders all the time...

[Sean Gallemore]

and why would sonicsense be selling it then?

[sexymexi]

good call, but the dat format i think is basicly the same, but you can record at 44.1/48 ect.  Whereas some MD players and recorders don't have different modes as in LP2/4 or mono, and therefore they cannot read them as some can.   I don't know, i still don't think they would work, but if so, hells yea, badass product i'd buy them..  

[Sean Gallemore]

i know what yer saying about the MDLP, however, i think this is part of the disc and not a function of the recorder.  Hopefully the price drops and I can test them

[Styx Cover Band]

They are data discs. minidisco is selling the sony brand of them. To bad to it would be nice to eliminate the tape flip

http://www.minidisco.com/mmd-140a.html

[Swampy]

I dont see how they can develope discs that big for data and not for audio...

[Styx Cover Band]

I dont see how they can develope discs that big for data and not for audio...

Yeah I don't either, but from what I read the audio discs are not compatible in MD data equipment and vice versa. The data discs are shaped different and the TOC is different.

[dklein]

They appear to be the same capacity of audio discs - remember they hold 74-80 minutes of compressed music - that's a fair bit to put into 140MB.  Sounds like you might have been thinking 140 minutes.

[Sean Gallemore]

They are data discs. minidisco is selling the sony brand of them. To bad to it would be nice to eliminate the tape flip

http://www.minidisco.com/mmd-140a.html

dammit fucking cocksuckers

[1st set only]

those are data discs I think they are for multi trac md machines