MiniDisc Community Pages News for 24 September 2000
o Peter Ravn finds [1]Feltech, a reasonably priced UK MD dealer.
[1] http://www.feltech.co.uk
o Ned Luce scans in a Sony MDS-JA333ES flyer ([2]page1, [3]page2 ).
[2] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdsja333es_release1.jpg
[3] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mdsja333es_release2.jpg
o Art Simon writes a [4]review of the Sharp MD-C2 mini system.
[4] http://art.simon.tripod.com/mdc2/
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 27 September 2000
o Taufik Saputera finds a deal: Mercata.com is selling [1]Sony
MZ-R37SP units for $107.00 USD each (that's the price for new
Mercata users, regular price $127).
[1]
http://www.mercata.com/cgi-bin/mercata/mercata/v2/pages/details.jsp?BV_SessionID=154899975.970112382&BV_EngineID=efalillhmdggbemgcfkmcgedkj.0&OID=21266
o Simon Gardner finds that [2]Amazon UK stocks a fairly extensive
pre-recorded MiniDisc selection (search for "minidisc" in the Music
category of the site).
[2] http://www.amazon.co.uk
o Paul Collins has a webpage describing his efforts to [3]transfer
over 8,000 titles of ethnic dance music from various audio formats
to MiniDisc.
[3] http://www.jordan-webb.net/ethnicdance/minidisc.html
o The MiniDisc [4]T-Station joins up with [5]Hyper Jack to offer for
sale all the MD units listed on the T-Station website.
[4] http://www.t-station.net
[5] http://www.iris.ne.jp/cgraph/hyperjack/HYPERPLmd/
o Dale Greer sets the record straight by [6]writing to the author of
the recently mentioned [7]MacNN article discussing Sony's "apparent
lack of support" for Macintosh in PC/MD interfacing.
[6] http://www.minidisc.org/macnn_response_letter.html
[7] http://www.macnn.com/feature.php?id=142
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 30 September 2000
o Aaron finds a link to [1]Pause Between Songs, a Winamp plug-in that
will help people record their MP3's to MD.
[1] http://home.bip.net/urbansan/gen_paus/
o Sony has a new MD mini-system on the market: the [2]DHC-ZX50MD (5
CD, 1 MD, high-speed CD to MD dubbing, digital optical inputs and
outputs). James discovers that [3]Crutchfield is selling the unit
for $500 USD.
[2] http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/premium/homeaudio/dhc-zx50md.html
[3]
http://www.crutchfield.com/cgi-bin/S-YDhuvvkeZSq/ProdView.asp?s=1&c=0&g=0&I=156ZX50MD&o=&a=
o Alexander Wong spots the [4]Sharp MD-MT866 on a Sharp Korean
website. (It seems strangely identical to the [5]Sharp MD-MT66... if
anyone discovers differences between the two units, please e-mail
[6][EMAIL PROTECTED])
[4] http://www.sharp-korea.co.kr/product/md/md-mt866.html
[5] http://www.minidisc.org/MD-MT66a.htm
[6] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
o Gary Binger notes Iomega's new product that enters the MP3 player
scene: the [7]HitZip player, utilizing PocketZip disks (previously
known as Clik! discs). Having to pay $10 a disc for only 40MB of
music (about 9 songs) sure makes MiniDisc sound like a great
alternative!
[7] http://www.iomega.com/hipzip/index2.html
MiniDisc Community Pages News for 1 October 2000
o The [1]Sony MZ-B50 is spotted on a Japanese electronics page
(English [2]translation ) with help from Steve Jess. Two new pro-MD
units were also found on Sony's Japan website: The [3]MDS-E10 and
[4]MDS-E12.
[1] http://www.tohoku-bf.u-coop.or.jp/cgi-bin/getcat?volume=0007&number=631413
[2] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mzb50_translation.html
[3] http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/ProductsPark/Models/New/MDS-E10_J_1/index.html
[4] http://www.sony.co.jp/sd/ProductsPark/Models/New/MDS-E12_J_1/index.html
o Two new manual scans are sent in: the [5]Sony MZ-R900 user manual
(PDF, English portions only) by Marc Wielage, and the [6]Sony MJ-L1
user manual (PDF) by Matt Cervi.
[5] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mzr900_manual.pdf
[6] http://www.minidisc.org/sony_mjl1_manual.pdf
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