MD: MiniDisc Weekly News for 11 June 2000

[MiniDisc Community Pages Weekly News]

MiniDisc Community Pages News for 6 June 2000

 o (Kingsley Smith) Sony fights back the tide of budget priced discs 
   with their JPY2800 ``Flagship'' [1]Dual-layer MD2000 discs (machine 
   [2]translation to English).

      [1] http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/CorporateCruise/Press/200006/00-0605B/
      [2] http://www.minidisc.org/md2000/index.html


 o Wolfgang finds what looks like Sony home MD deck [3]release dates on 
   an EPA site: MDS- (Jun) JE640, JE440, JE340 (MXD-?)D4, (Jul) JB940, 
   (Aug) PC3, JA333ES, (Sep) D5. 6/9: They've magically disappeared 
   from the EPA web page. 

      [3] http://www.epa.gov/appdstar/home_electronics/dvdlst.htm


 o David Wright suggests using [4]MiniDisc for telephone recording.

      [4] http://www.minidisc.org/trick_tips.html#telephone


 o Kelvin Chang finds an ETown article saying [5]a DataPlay equipped 
   Rio MP3 player could be on the market in a year. (We previously 
   reported the [6]Wired article covering the [7]DataPlay Disc, a tiny 
   500MB write-once medium designed to hold music, books, games and 
   photos.) 

      [5] http://www.etown.com/news/article.jhtml?articleID=2803
      [6] http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,35287,00.html
      [7] http://www.dataplay.com


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 7 June 2000

 o  Eric Georgeaux has created [1]Sharp MD titling freeware that uses 
   [2]Meier's computer interface to Sharp portables.

      [1] http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eric.georgeaux/mdtitlecddb/
      [2] http://my.nichols.de/meierth/MD70X.HTML


 o Peter Wood adds a [3]discussion forum to his Sharp MD-MS7xx page.

      [3] http://www.wood-soft.co.uk/sharp7XX


 o [4]Blankshop.com (UK) open shop, offering good prices on Sony and 
   TDK blanks.

      [4] http://www.blankshop.com


 o Dan Frakes finds JVC's tidy little [5] FS-MD9000 Minidisc bookshelf 
   system at [6]Buy.com for $250 and a [7]coupon for another $30 off 
   (with free shipping). 6/8: Rob and Matt note Buy.com's realtime 
   supply and demand response: price is now $300. 

      [5] http://www.minidisc.org/part_JVC_FS-MD9000.html
      [6] http://www.us.buy.com/electronics/product.asp?sku=90000227
      [7] http://www.us.buy.com/promo/80210137.asp


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 8 June 2000

 o Simon Gardner sends in high-res facia shots of the Pioneer 
   [1]M5100R, [2]M7100R, [3]M9100R, and Sony [4]MDX-C6500R, 
   [5]MDX-C6500RV, [6]MDX-C800REC, [7]MDX-C8500R car MD units. 

      [1] http://www.minidisc.org/pioneer_m5100r_large.jpg
      [2] http://www.minidisc.org/pioneer_m7100r_large.jpg
      [3] http://www.minidisc.org/pioneer_m9100r.jpg
      [4] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdxc6500r_large.jpg
      [5] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdxc6500rv_large.jpg
      [6] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdxc800rec_large.jpg
      [7] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdxc8500r.jpg


 o Scott Knight finds the [8]Sharp MD-X5 bookshelf system on sale for 
   [9]$100 through Etown/ShopAudioVideo.com. With its PS/2 keyboard 
   port for character input, this could be considered a [slightly] 
   extravagant titling solution. 6/9: The curse of popularity: price is 
   now an unexceptional $200. 

      [8] http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_MD-X5.html
      [9] 
http://www.etown.com/categories/product_profile.jhtml?keyword=minidisc&productID=4621&categoryID=&startPosition=1&sortType=3&keyword=minidisc&maxItemsPerPage=25&fromSearch=true&section=search&searchtype=products


MiniDisc Community Pages News for 9 June 2000

 o Hazuki Shimono authors an Etown article covering [1]MiniDisc audio 
   vending machines in Japan.

      [1] http://www.etown.com/columns/features.jhtml?articleID=2556


 o Leon finds the [2]``Will-MD'' SJ-MW1/2/3 portables. They're 
   Panasonic SJ-MJ77 variants with frames on their lids so that 
   stickers and photos can be inserted (different from the Panasonic, 
   they come w/o a drycell case). 

      [2] http://www.digi-vita.com/digi-vita/md/index.html


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