hobgoblin

ok, now im more confused then i ever was about how hi-md compares to md if this was to correct my post, know that it was written based on what i recall, and in very general terms so as to try and get the message thru without drowning it in technobabble (something i have a bad habbit of doing at times, or so i have been told IRL). still, higher capasity hi-md's have been discussed before, but i dont feel the need to dig up a thread...

smaller clusters is basicly what the blu-ray does. smaller cluster requires shorter wavelength laser to read them. from what i understand the dvd player uses a 2 laser setup to be able to read both dvd's and cd's. the hi-md however uses a kind of lense trick to make the player able to use the same wavelength laser to read the smaller pits, while allso being able to read the older md format. this is why you can reformat the md discs into a hi-md compatible format. but i dont think they can deploy the same trick again to increase the capasity much more. atleast not into the 20GB range...

only way to do a 20GB hi-md would be to go the blu-ray route. either that or scale the whole thing up so its the size of a cd, and that would negate one of the reasons to get a md player in the first place... and my wishlist? playback of mp3s without having to go the sonicstage route. basicly allow me to drag and drop them using the os's native file browser. no extra drivers, nothing like that at all. just usb storage media. that way it would sell to just about anyone. linux users, mac users, you name it.

thing is that originaly sony was a consumer electronics company thru and thru. but someone screwed up when mergerfever happend in the 90's, and suddenly sony was a record and movie company! this however isnt sustainable as the entertainment department worrys to much about what the consumers/enemy will do with the products coming out of the electronics department. in the end this makes people move away from sony as a whole. hell, when you hear sony suing itself by proxy (riaa suing some electronics group) you know the bottom have been reached and something have to be done. problem is that they did the wrong thing and pulled in a person from the entertainment world to try and fix it all...

hmm, i wonder, can hi-md support the datarate needed to play back a video?

and currently way more expensive to. alltho it seems to be dropping by the year. kinda reminds me about how the intel chips became so cheap, nasa orderd a whole lot of them for the moon mission. intel then turned around and sold the leftovers to other companys... basicly, the flash based ipods and similar are diving the production of flash memory thru the roof and therefor the cost thru the floor still, the cost is nowhere near the point where one can pick up a box of 10-20 flash units and then hand then of to friends and similar if need be.

they took their sweet time...

ah, sorry about that. i guess it was the use of you that made it sound personal... that and the quote...

wft? sure it looked like a nh600, but from what i understood it would be able to do native mp3 playback (as in, no wrapping in drm, just drag and drop). or was that just some marketing speak?

im starting to wonder, anyone heard anything new about that buffalo player? it was supposed to hi-md based yes?

there is a reason why you can turn autorun off (alltho the option is hidden in the most silly of places).

not going to happen...

but as md players of all types have been pulled from the sonystyle europe page, and i cant seem to find anything else then some leftover 600's in the local shops, im guessing the US and EU variants are dead... maybe i could get myself a japan tourist model or something if i realy tryed...

the speed depends on a lot of factors. if apple choose to use a intel cpu with virtualization ability then windows should reach near native speeds... one could allso go the wine route and create a translation layer between win32 librarys and the librarys used in os x. but anything else will seriously impact the speed...

yep, basicly sony starved the format to death... that and the draconian drm system is what killed it, not a lack of market...

what markets have this thing been released to?

sadly its only fraud if your not a member of any of the AA's or have bought some politicans and/or judges...

now thats a interesting european map. denmark and southern sweden is lit up, same with GB and what is often called the low contrys. on and dont forget the swiss. the rest have spots but nothing big interesting that oslo and the surrounding citys are very bright to

ah, user friendly. if there is anything that can get me to see the absurdity of the it world, this is it

the review got moved here

those v55 looks like they are from the age of aqarius or something. sad realy, i would love to see those two companys make some good hi-md players with mp3 support...

well atleast it looks like sony isnt about to drop the format totaly. yet i wonder if future players will work with the connect platform at all. strange realy to make hi-md enabled players with no transfer ability as there are about zero non-portable hi-md devices available. nah, give me a hi-md with the ability to play mp3 files straight of the data section. then ill buy it no matter the cost (allmost).

fully aware of that and i belive i had allready pointed out that in diffrent threads. im most likely going to get myself a iriver or iaudio player some time in the future now that himd seems to be going down, fast... to bad realy, it was a nice idea. but sony basicly strangled it...

i file that under sarcasm. i may as well make one disc with the music in play form and one with it in data form then. but i dont want that. i want one disc that can be read both as music and as data with only one set of files on them. sometimes sony realy does stuff the hard way...

6. yes they are going to drop sonicstage in favor of the new connect player. no i dont think that this will suddenly make all himd players true drag and drop devices. for that you would have to alter the firmware or something to play music files from the disc's file system directly. this however is based on the thought that drag and drop is done inside the file manager of the os your using. if its done inside the special app supplied by the maker of the mp3 player then most likely yes. atleast when im asking for drag and drop ability it means that i dont want to use a extra program. i want to be able to drag the files onto a icon inside the file manager and thats it.