ROMBUSTERS

where abouts are you at there Dex? im in ontario, close enought to toronto as i want to be, and there are HiMD blanks everywhere i look. even a local Zellers is selling them now

wut no SACD or DVDA support? lol just kidding looks very good!

there is currently no way to trasnfer the audio from a netMD player (other than HiMDs) to the computer via USB. [PLEASE SOMEONE CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG] It only transfers the rights to play the song or something to that effect. You cant even rip the audio because the playback is done through the MD's headphones However if you had a stero mini male to male cored you could connect your MDs headphone jack to your soundcards line in and make recordings that way

no one really knows but we're all hoping (for all HiMD units)

it shouldnt really be that different. Although there are some hardware limitations if that wut your referring to. HiMD 1GB discs read faster then any other disc formatted HiMD or not. If battery power is wut is cuasing your laser to be slow on the seek then payback in old MD mode (which requires less power overall) might help but i doubt it'll be noticeable. Other than that there shouldnt be any difference using 'old' minidiscs.

does it transfer any songs whatsoever?

on a Pentium III: 866Mhz WinXPSP2 i have it runing at an average of 10% CPU

probably both in that last case im guessing

dex i was joking

its kind of useless seeing as premastered HiMDs cannot really exhist (or at least with physical pits and lands like classic MDs) and i dont see many for sale. Although PCM MD would be nice

have u tried using a different disc?

very possible, i dont doubt the MD has more power than my soundblaster lol

Did this even come out? The Sony MZ-EH1 the Sony HiMD player (only) http://www.minidisct.com/products/sony_mz-eh1.html

i tried just now plugging my comp mic (which is like 6 years old that my school was giving away - so u know its bad) - but it works - anyways and i couldnt even get a sound to come out of it unless i moved the cord around, which causes static

is it possible to use a $5 computer mic just to record speech?

glad we finally agree

agreed but i was referring to the temporary placelist created by changing the playback mode to shuffle (which may be stored in the same RAM as the TOC or in the buffer RAM), with the latter being incorrectly blamed for lowering the buffering amount by such a significant amount.

wouldnt it just be accessing the windows default sound output anyways? does your computer make sound on windows startup?

i thought the NH1 remote did at the very least. not sure about the 900 (unless they use the same remote)

the quality loss (especially while recording via line-in or mic) would be little to none. not to say there isnt some, its just that you probably wont hear it anyways. HiSP is a very decent codec

i havnt had any problems uploading or converting however be warned that uploading at PCM especially a 2-hour file would take a very long time to do

fair enough although i doubt a couple of kilobytes (max) will take that much away from music playback. 1411kbps(PCM) (kilobits/second) ~ 176.375 kilobytes/second 256kbps(A3+HISP) ~ 32 KB/s 132kbps(A3LP2) ~ 16.5 KB/s 105kbps(A3LP2/3) ~ 13.125 KB/s 66kbps(A3LP4) ~ 8.25 KB/s 64kbps(A3+HILP) ~ 8 KB/s 48kbps(A3+48) (kilobits/second) ~ 6 kilobytes/second and (though a test i just conducted) a 10,000 character textfile only took up 9.76kilobytes ~ 1byte per character. I doubt sony uses this format to store it however it cant be much different. Also i forget the HiMD character limit but the player recognzes the songs by their playnumber anyways, lowering the amount of overall info store. But lets take the worst case senario, say it did indeed need 10kilobytes to store the playlist (which it wouldnt). That means its only robbing the buffer of the following amount of music: 1411kbps(PCM) = 0.0567 seconds of music lost 256kbps(A3+HISP) = 0.3125 lost 132kbps(A3LP2) = 0.6061 lost 105kbps(A3LP2/3) = 0.7619 lost 66kbps(A3LP4) = 1.212 lost 64kbps(A3+HILP) = 1.25 lost 48kbps(A3+48) = 1.66667 seconds lost keeping in mind this is worst case senario and indeed the music buffer is used as a shared RAM your still looking at loosing (at worst) about 2 seconds of audio only

yup as long as you have Windows 98SE + your computer should automatically recognize it as an external drive (which you can then access through my computer). If it doesnt work for you or cant find the drivers, sony's website has them

there are chances for everything but unless your abnormally rough with it you should have no problem The average batterylife depends on the type of battery used, its current condition, the type of MD used, the MD mode, and the bitrate/playback mode used. Sony says you can get 21.5Hours of playback on 48kbps on a 1GB HiMD disc on my NH700 so im guessing at that same rate you'll get a much longer playback. If you play the disc in old MD mode (because the laser is then not needed to heat up the disc surface to expand the data for reading) it requires less power and thus should be comparible to older MDs.

why dont u just use the HiMD as a data drive and store the MP3s that way? No DMR and you can transfer them back to the new computer