Topic: SP is taking HiMD preorders

[Sean Gallemore]

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/category.cgi?category=9015&item=SONY-MZ-NHF800&type=store

check out the EXPECTED pcm recording time  

and USB 1.1  

maybe I'm just trying to justify a recent purchase  

[AT853rxwh]

Good luck with that Neuros!  

 

[George]

waste of money...

[Sean Gallemore]

the neuros or HiMD?

[George]

the neuros or HiMD?

HiMD...

[BobW]

I like HiMD media, but not the machine.
I hope someone comes out with a .wav recorder that takes digi-in for HiMD disks soon.

[Sean Gallemore]

no doubt that you can record wav via digi-opti-in on the HiMD, the problem is extracting the wav digitally...

[BobW]

no doubt that you can record wav via digi-opti-in on the HiMD, the problem is extracting the wav digitally...

Methinks that Sony only allows analog input/output, ugh.

No doubt, some enterprising folk/company will subvert this paradigm with a truly practical solution and .wav  file  support for HiMD media, once it has been out for a few months/years.  

<futurist_vision_goggles>    
By then, we'll all gripe that HiMD is a measly 1GB and poo-poo it for SuperAudioDisk, the new format. However, SAD will be undercut by the inclusion of 248bit encryption, BlueTooth,  and the need for a 'Net connection for the licensing certificate server to allow it to play.
</futurist_vision_goggles>    

[John Kelly]

no doubt that you can record wav via digi-opti-in on the HiMD, the problem is extracting the wav digitally...

Methinks that Sony only allows analog input/output, ugh.

No doubt, some enterprising folk/company will subvert this paradigm with a truly practical solution and .wav  file  support for HiMD media, once it has been out for a few months/years.  

<futurist_vision_goggles>    
By then, we'll all gripe that HiMD is a measly 1GB and poo-poo it for SuperAudioDisk, the new format. However, SAD will be undercut by the inclusion of 248bit encryption, BlueTooth,  and the need for a 'Net connection for the licensing certificate server to allow it to play.
</futurist_vision_goggles>    

Actually, you can record digitally via the optical in.  However, if you do this you will not be able to transfer the recording via USB.  

[yin_yang]

OK, I'm thinking about buying a HiMD...Do I need anything else other than it and Mic with phantom power?

[George]

OK, I'm thinking about buying a HiMD...Do I need anything else other than it and Mic with phantom power?

You'll need a preamp to power the mics.

[Sean Gallemore]

OK, I'm thinking about buying a HiMD...Do I need anything else other than it and Mic with phantom power?

what mic?

[Scuba Jeremy]

There is really no way to justify the purchase of one of these things with the JB3 going for nearly half the price of HiMD unit. Digital in and lossless transfers, and no cost for media.

I love MDs, totally, but I can't justify these HiMDs ... yet.

Actually, when Sony releases the PSP and the UMD discs, THAT will be some hot stuff. But knowing Sony, they'll screw that up too.

[gewwang]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

[Sean Gallemore]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

higher probability of skipping

[George]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

[zhianosatch]

Nope, I keep em all.

[gewwang]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Personally, I don't really care what happens to my dat masters (since I tape in 16/44, viewpoint might be different in 16/48). Once I've extracted the audio and shn'ed and uploaded to some friend's ftp servers, I'm happy with a shn cdr in hand and knowing that if something happened to it that my server friends would be able to hook me up.

[George]

no cost for media.

But theoretically, couldn't you just reuse a few MD's over and over without any loss of quality? It's not like dat/dds where you lose quality reusing them, is it?

I wouldn't erase any MD masters of a show i taped, would you?

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Personally, I don't really care what happens to my dat masters (since I tape in 16/44, viewpoint might be different in 16/48). Once I've extracted the audio and shn'ed and uploaded to some friend's ftp servers, I'm happy with a shn cdr in hand and knowing that if something happened to it that my server friends would be able to hook me up.

As for the HD recorder peeps, nah, i would archive the raw wav i transfer over on my pc.  As for dats and MD's, i safe keep them, even though i do have transfers sitting on my pc (as shn and wav) and will probably backup to dvd-rw eventually, i'm just paranoid like that.  I always like to have multiple sources to retrieve them, as you do with ftp.

[recordista]

So what are HD recorder people going to do, archive hard drives?

Many of us who have been working with significant quantities of data for any length of time have learned to keep several copies in different locations.  Right now, hard drives offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and it's trivial to replicate the data.  Having all the data available in online rather than offline storage allows automated checksum validation without human interrvention (feeding disks.)