Zyvek

Thanks everyone for your help! Today when out shopping I found a Hi-MD MZ-NH600D at Sam's Club for $125.00 I figured this was a much better deal than a 20GB MP3 Player, since I could reformat all my old MDs with much higher capacity... Maybe I'll take another look at MP3 players when Sony has a 60GB model... In the meantime I'm still hanging with MD.. The only downside for me is that I have a lot of 1st Gen MD equipment.... Is there anyway (other than standard MD mode) that an old player and playback MD's recored in Net MD or Hi-MD? The one thing I don't like is that SonicStage wont let me record a standard MD in mono. I've been doing this for years to double the capacity of my standard MDs Thanks! -Z

Thanks for all the help so far. Last night I tried out a MDLP unit using LP4. Ick. I'll try LP2 tonight. Since Hi-MD dosen't do LP2 maybe MDLP is the way to to go? I noticed the Network Walkman does ATRAC3Plus 64K, this should also be the same as LP2, right? It's a shame that the Hi-MD wont let you use LP2 on a Hi-MD 1GB disk.... Decisions, Decisions... It also seems that perhaps I should keep MD for my off road activites & running at the very least, I'm not sure a Network Walkman would keep up... I'm sure this is an old thought for the MD experts, but I would pay double for being able to record MDLP that my old units could PLAY, I know too much to ask for. Thanks again...

I just joined this forum, looking for information on upgrading my old MD equipment (I skipped Net/MD MDLP mostly because at the time Sony's NetMD software could not hanldle the size of my music collection ~9000 songs, plus using old MD in MONO has been good enough for me!) However now I'm on the fence about upgrading at all. I have been a huge MD fan from the start, to this date I still use a TON of MD Gear: Sony CD/MD Deck MXD-D3 JVC 3CD/MD Deck Sony MD in dash car stereo Sony portable MD recorder 3-4 other Sony/JVC Portable players I primarily started with MD for my somewhat active lifestyle (running, biking, motorcycling) and with so much of my music on MD it seemed logical to add a car player. Even with the old stuff I have today MD is the only thing I use when I need portable music. But right now I'm not sure if I should upgrade to HI-MD equipment or switch over a few Sony HD5/3 Network Walkmans. Even if MD is in decline for the mainstream, I think the most important thing we that came out of MD is AATRAC3plus (or whatever the latest version is), I'm of the opinion that there is no point in considering any portable digital player without it. I think the only thing I can think of that is a minus w/Hard Drive based players is putting all by eggs (songs) in one basket. Although with Hi-MD it seems that it would pretty much be the same thing as the cost of 2 Hi-MD units wouldn't be that much less than two network walkmans. It seems that vibration and shock are no longer the issue that they were (for running, and motorcycling)...currently my music collection is about 12GB in WMA format...In the past smaller HD units had me worried that I would outgrow capacity, but I think that's no longer going to be an issue... Any thoughts, comments or guideance would be apprecitated.... If I go the Network Walkman route any idea if the old equipment is worth donating to any charity (can't imagine anyone would want to buy it) Thank you for your help! -Z in the USA old school minidisc.org fan