hobgoblin

pissing of the telcos in norway seriusly, he i working on ways to send messages on the cheap as the price for a single sms here in norway is atleast x10 the mount it costs for the actual data being transferd pr gprs... and unless he ended up with a minidisc player and wanted to transfer some music from linux i dont think he would be interested anyways. and i have a feel that he have a ipod as he have been messing with itunes for some time now.

so far, all i have been able to kind of isolate is some of the background usb traffic basicly the logs in their current state is hard to match to the specs for the usb protocol. it seems to have taken the usb packages apart somewhat. and i thought that tcp had a lot of overhead at times. its featherweight compared to this

there is one way to press himds, but you have to do it with the write layer and then put the "lense" layer on afterwards. it complicates the prosess a bit tho...

is the 2nd gen himd using a diffrent way of storing mp3 files then the hd3? of not then didnt someone crack the way that hd3 stores mp3s?

not very likely that they give that up...

so how can a dvd player read a cd? a second read head with a diffrent laser?

oops, forgot that hi-md isnt just your normal mo system so basicly it must heat a special layer so that the laser thinks its reading a much bigger pit then it realy is? that most definetly puts a dent in the read speed for hi-md media...

that depends on the spin speed they could put on it. the read speed of a mo media should be similar to a cd/dvd if it can get the right rotation speed. writing is a whole diffrent beast as heating to just the right point takes time...

i just grabbed the usb logs and is having a look at them. i have armed myself with a spec of the usb protocol. im no usb tech tho so god knows how long this will take. still, it looks similar to a packet sniff from a tcp/ip connection if i can filter out the payloads from the background traffic i should be able to figure out what SS (how fitting) does compared to just a normal file transfer...

compared to sonystyle's europe site the canadian one is heaven! not only does it have the RH units listed but it allso have the pure storage device listed! err, oops, it was that flash card reader. silly me damn it sony, its about time you do something to that european site! still, both sites have no entry for media from what i can see... edit: found it on the .ca site under audio accessories... and another bit about the diff of those two sites, the european one loves to fail in firefox!

i would like to know 2 thing about this thing, does it do mp3 playback as the 2nd gen sonys or can it play them from datafiles put onto the hi-md using drag and drop? and will it ever be shipped outside of japan?

and the interest in breaking the drm on the hi-md would have spiked to hmm, strange that they dont have the emulator do a scale of the image...

buffalo was to use the beatjam software to handle music transfer, and its supposed to work with mac from what i understood. as for firewire on pc's. you will find it on most new motherboards...

i guess they where hoping to kill of any piracy for the psp by using a strange media and i second indeego's post, just reading "magic gate" is enough for me to go bang my head against a wall...

gabba gabba gah...

i think they claimed so in the press release, but we all know that a press release is not a final spec

from what i understood he wanted to use the 600 as a data drive permanently located on his desktop. the unit used for playback would be a new 2nd gen with mp3 ability. but can he do direct mp3 transfer to said 600 even tho its not a 2nd gen unit? or is sonicstage being anal about it?

bananatree, shoutcast is basicly a netcast. you just have to grab the stream

so sonicstage checks what kind of unit you have plugged in and disables direct mp3 transfer if said unit is not 2nd gen, right?

its strange that they cant design them so that the edge of the shutter is coverd. that way there is nothing to snag on while removing its allso strange that they have not made the md player lock the eject system until the system is properly parked. but then neither was there an ability to have a floppy station be locked until properly unmounted (removing the floppy in the middle of a write is a classic).

i have yet to encounter a salesperson on the floor that knows anything about the product he is selling as long as its a sales only place. now if the place allso do repairs then you may encounter the techies from the backroom moonlighting as salespeople at times and they know a fair bit more about what goes on. still, md equipment is a bit special. if you talked to the same people about general audio/visual car/home equipment then they may present you with a bit more info. they are people to after all, and all people care more about what interests them...

one step forward, two steps back...

sounds about the same as a 900, am i right? still, its not to bad for a pc drive

but for some oddball (drm) reason have to obfuscate em so that you cant just copy em of the hi-md... well, lets see what the buffalo player can manage (if its more then a smokescreen).

er so one cant record mp3 directly? either their engineers or their marketing people fucked up. i wonder, if one buys a 2nd gen hi-md player/recorder based on the statement that it can record mp3 and it dont can you then get a refund?