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kgallen

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  1. Hi @Christopher Would you be able to renew the site certificate? I believe it expired in October 2021. This makes it hard to access the site from some machines and browsers since site access is blocked. We would like to encourage the wider MD community back to this excellent Forum. Thanks! Kevin
  2. Nah I’ve had those a year or so… …the last time I ‘needed’ discs. I’m not yer man 🥸
  3. I suppose I better ‘fess up too. @BearBoy and I have been on a mutually induced disc-buying spree starting on Amazon.co.jp Not quite @Richard’s class though. Bet this is sideways or upside down too 🤦‍♂️
  4. Same happens to me sometimes. Not sure I know why.
  5. @BearBoythanks for the follow up! I think we’re concluding iTunes CD burner is definitely where the bug lies…
  6. Update: this mash-up machine is still going strong. I’ve been using it daily for listening whilst working from home. It sits nicely under the laptop! Disc write still works - I’ve not recorded audio using this machine recently but I’ve done lots of disc edits - titling, divides etc as it’s so easy with the keyboard. Most of my MDs at the moment I’m dubbing from CD using my MXD-D4. The rest of my racked machines from the photo above had to go back into the workshop (missus rules!). They didn’t get their outing in January - panto cancelled (Wales COVID rules…)
  7. Whoooaaaa… SIF just refreshed itself on Chrome on my phone. What the heck is going on with this site??? Site info says the cert is still expired.
  8. I can only get on my Win 10 PC with Firefox now. Can't get on with iPhone with Firefox now. Chrome doesn't want to know anywhere. It's very flakey.
  9. I'd go for a disc or a 3-pack (depends how they are being packaged) if the price isn't stupid, just for the nostalgia!
  10. It's a bit up and down this morning (UK). Can't get on using phone again. Firefox on PC is working but it takes a long time to load the page. Oh how I wish for stability and a new shiny certificate!
  11. I’ve closed the SIF Chrome window and reopened and it seems to load again… no idea.
  12. So that "Walkman" above is not a cassette deck then? It's a solid-state MP3 player? The equivalent would make no sense at all for MD! To do anything new for MD they would have to resurrect their old chip designs and they will probably be on a technology node that has long since been decomissioned in the wafer fabs (for anything but military and space applications that tend to use older technology). They aren't going to spend the money it would take to port their designs to a more recent node, the costs are just too astronomical for the likely return. However I'm waiting to be proven wrong. Re TH: No it was just an off-the-cuff comment/hearsay/gossip. No reference given. ps - SIF has stopped loading on Chrome on my iPhone. Still OK here on Firefox on the Win10 PC...
  13. @BearBoy Those links are great, thanks! it appears Sony still has the MDW80T as current product then, that’s comforting… and that we shouldn’t be bullied by those eBayers charging silly prices for new discs (or even 2nd hand ones!). Someone on Taoeheads was suggesting recently Sony had stopped disc production. Their site would suggest not. (Possibly the thread that gave me the link for these disc purchases). I wonder how interested these big corporations are in anniversaries when they don’t really have an active product line to promote. Sony electronics is nothing it used to be so I wonder how interested they even are with exploiting it for a generic promotion of the Sony brand?
  14. @BearBoymy second batch are boxed like yours. So whilst these aren't decorative discs like we've seen from the past, these are a subtly different model, MDW80T, from the "Basic" range, MDW80BC, that we thought were the only discs still made and "bulk" packed in the boxes of 25. Maybe they are the same inside (as in disc caddy and slip case). I don't have any of the "Basic" range to compare. I can't find a manufacture date code on the box, but I presume these are all new-new. The box packaging doesn't look aged in any way, it's still crisp in colour and form. My previous batch of 10 (from the same seller, although his "last 10") were lose packed in a plastic bag, not in boxes. But they were MDW80T too and the wrappers are also crisp and seem new-new.
  15. @BearBoy are your discs boxed? What specific model are they? They look different to my original batch at least in the packaging. Will open my new ones shortly…
  16. He’s hiding 60 discs in there not the 20 he said he’d bought 😆
  17. Snap! Mine came today too 😀
  18. Wednesday for me. But if the last order is anything to go by it might be sooner. Initially on this first JPN purchase the bank blocked my credit card, but once that was resolved it was shipped on 18/Jan and I received it on 20/Jan! I notice the price went up. Hopefully @BearBoy I didn’t cause too much inflation on your purchase! 🥸
  19. Chrome on my iPhone SE has worked for read most of the time the site has worked at all. Now it’s working ‘ok’. Chrome on PC doesn’t want to know, so I installed Firefox and that’s ok once the certificate expiry is bypassed. If only we could get the certificate updated I think we’d be properly back up and running…
  20. Group function is just firmware on the microcontroller. They use the track name to carry group information. I think if you put a disc with groups into a non-group machine and scroll the title you will find more text that relates to the grouping. i.e. it’s not related to the ATRAC chipset it just happens to be something Sony introduced late on and MDLP was well established by then.
  21. I think group came in on the x70 decks like my MDS-JE770. I think it’s the only thing that differentiates the x40 and x70 families! Type S didn’t come in until the x80 family.
  22. I’ve got nuthin’ on you @BearBoy. Just had a count: 86 x 74 mins and (72+40) x 80 mins.
  23. Sorry 🥸🤣 You’ve done pretty well over these years though, this is the first ‘success’ I’ve had! 😆
  24. What did you do…? 😁 20 discs I’m thinking 🤔
  25. I hope so, I just spent £92! 😆
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