MD: MiniDisc Weekly News for 16 January 2000

[MiniDisc Community Pages Weekly News]

MiniDisc Community Pages News for 9 January 2000

 o Benny Chan finds the [1]Aiwa AM-F70 for $200 at Tweeter (search for 
   "amf70").

      [1] http://www.tweeter.com


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 11 January 2000

 o Laurence Lee spots Sony's photo and Japanese announcement of their 
   [1]MZ-E7W wireless remote MD walkman, allowing wristwatch based 
   control and display operations. (See English [2]machine translation 
   ).

      [1] http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/CorporateCruise/Press/200001/00-0111/
      [2] http://www.minidisc.org/mz_e7w_trans.html


 o Last year, ASC and the London College of Printing made a joint 
   venture to [3]equip student journalists with MZ-R37 recorders.

      [3] http://www.audio.demon.co.uk/asc%26lcp.html


 o Another good price: Milton Meinhardt finds the [4]Aiwa CSD-MD50 
   boombox for $200 at JR.

      [4] 
http://www.jandr.com/oasis/bin/objectbuilder.dll?MAX_SEQ_NUM=1&EXEC_SEQ_1=OB_RPC%2cJANDR_GetDisplayInfo_USR%2c@remote_user%2c@Product_Id%2c@Mode%2c+%2c+%2c+%2cd%3a/http/oasis/displays/primary/primary.tem%2cd%3a/http/error.tem&Mode=0&Product_Id=375.0&SQL_TYPE_Product_Id=SQLNUMERIC&SQL_TYPE_Mode=SQLINT4


 o [5]MiniDiscussion.com, our official discussion board, gets a 
   complete facelift. 

      [5] http://www.minidiscussion.com


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 12 January 2000

 o A friend sends in [1]photos of the Sony MZ-E7W wristwatch remote.

      [1] http://www.minidisc.org/mz_e7w_photos.html


 o Moore finds ZDNet's mention of the [2]Sony MZ-R90's February arrival 
   in the US (near the middle of the page).

      [2] http://equip.zdnet.com/gear/sporttech/feature/ces/index_2_1.html


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 13 January 2000

 o Mikhail Grigoriev points out Panasonic's unusual looking 
   [1]SC-PM50MD mini-compo system, and T-station gives it [2]English 
   coverage. He also finds Panasonic's Japanese announcement of their 
   [3]RX-MDX5 boombox.

      [1] http://www.panasonic.co.jp/avc/audio/web/pick_up/p_compo/p_compo.html
      [2] http://www.t-station.net/products/pana_scpm50md.html
      [3] http://www.panasonic.co.jp/avc/audio/web/pick_up/mdx5/mdx5.html


 o Hans Henrik Bune spots a German testing institute's summary results 
   for [4]9 modern MD recorders.

      [4] 
http://www.warentest.de/wtest/plsql/sw_kompass.anzeige?kontaktnr=0&va_inh_id=16875&zeitschrift=t


 o Zach Zaletel finds the [5]Sharp MD-MS722 for $150 (after rebate and 
   gift certificate [exp. 1/28]) at Shopping.com. 

      [5] http://store.altavista.com/store/product.sdc?p=10585092


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 14 January 2000

 o MP3.com begins a beta [1]Music Provider Service. They have 45,000 
   CDs available for streaming after you show you own the CD. You do 
   this by 1) placing the CD in your CD-ROM drive and using their 
   "Beam-it" software, or 2) purchasing the CD through one of their 
   associated e-tailers.

      [1] http://www.mp3.com/news/518.html?hparticle1


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 16 January 2000

 o Ilwoong Pyo points out Casio's photos and Japanese announcement of 
   their [1]MP3 player wristwatch. Due out in April, the unit holds 
   32MB of audio and can be loaded via USB port (each 4 minute track 
   taking 70 seconds).

      [1] http://www.casio.co.jp/productnews/wqv_1_wmp_1v.html


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