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    Live recording, mostly jazz performances

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  1. oti

    SonicStage CP 4.0

    Well actually the MZ-RH1 comes with version 3.4.03.15140 of Sonic Stage on CD. It's an interesting enhancement to make it possible for the MZ-RH1 to upload the MD Atrac format digitally, which of course is not unimportant. I'd say it's a major breakthrough (from the digital transport mode) to the classic MD (analog out only) format. So the tunnel is established, the hole to the other world finally is found.
  2. Plenty of them here in The Netherlands. I already own one since May 10th. It's a neat little gadget lacking the superb OLED display of the beautiful MZ-RH10. You can't have everything. Greetz, Oti
  3. Hé man, I would say it could well be that Sony isn't ready yet to push out a permanent deck because as you can see the portable HiMD machines are evolving rather quickly these days. So to my opinion things must reach a certain level of rest before you can put an more or less stable homedeck for the long run on the market. We don't want to have to change from a homedeck every year because something new (and hopefully better) was added to the HiMD concept. Be patient and let there be peace in the valley. Who said that, can you guess? If only there would come a possibility to upgrade the firmware of your mobile recorder. That would be honorable by Sony. Oti
  4. oti

    **April Fools**

    Well, that's easy to see. When at first you introduce a rather complete machine (first generation) and secondly come with a stripped edition (second generation) but suddenly come back with a machine (third generation MZ-RH1 to come) that is equipped with some of the earlier abandoned features like: back to SP handling, time/date stamp, line out and I hope more like speed control and pitch control, than - at last for me - it is very likely that the dip is over and the inventors finally decided to pull hard on HiMD. Especially the return of first generation features make me think so.
  5. Of course we are thrilled that the format still lives on, but... As someone mentioned above it seems as if the format at this moment is only intended for recording en transferring purpose. One must be aware though, that in this case Sony won't sell much 1Gb disks, because we can reuse them 1-million times to transfer recorded material. Economically a strange situation for an inventing company. If you want the consumer to build up a considerable archive on MD, you have to offer him a home-deck. Now there are two scenarios to be drawn. 1. The home deck surely is underway, unless Sony is not trying to make a profit from MD business anymore. In the latter case they still derive praise from the MD-consumer because they do finish the job (Imaginable just to preserve a good name when it comes to not letting the public down half way). The best thing to happen would be of course coming with a homedeck AND continue and stretch the HiMD future. 2. In secret they (Sony) are developing a super minidisk that might use blue laser technics (as someone on the forum suggested), that may outperform other formats, especially in price/performance terms. It is of great importance for a firm to have faith from the consumer, especially when they are innovative. If so then they can gain a flying start when coming out with new technologic discoveries. Think about Elcaset, Betamax, DAT recording, Video 8, Video Hi-8, Memory stick etc. This is the consequence of an innovating company, sometimes you win even so often you may loose. My conclusion: looking at the past then you have to leave the job in a neat way, so as to keep the goodwill already gained, which you need for future developments. Oti
  6. I would say the reverse: Decks for editing and listening, portables for live recording (interviews, making bootlegs or legal recordings for study, demo or archiving purposes). Well yes, it depends off course on what you're recording if you're only copying cd's than a homedeck will do; and if you only listen to your copied music outside then it's clear too. You probably even don't need a homedeck so badly, or? I see a full fledged home-deck as an important transfer point between MD and HiMD. Oti
  7. Onkyo HiMD compact deck: The bloody thing is that this deck has NO OPTICAL O U T ! Only optical in and that's lousy. So I regard this deck as not serious. Sony should honor the faithfullness of the long time MD adepts in particular, by manufacturing a true legendary HiMD homedeck of exeptional quality at the end of the mechanical-digital age and the dawn of the solid state recording devices. Why can't they refrain from profits once in a while. It will surely do their reputation good. As an inventing company you need goodwill and confidence of your customers to help you when introducing a new technology. In other words you can't introduce a whole new promising upgrade of a system and then leave your faithfull customers in the cold in a dead-end street. A homedeck would be the least thing to introduce. Oti
  8. Most of the items mentioned below by 1kyle I agree with. Of great importance to me is the Optical OUT connection, just because we still have the heritage of a classic format MD collection which we might eventually might want to transfer (lossless) in HiMD format. The ablity to disable the automatic record level permanently is also a relief when doing serious live recording. As we see the forthcoming stunning MZ-RH1 is said to have this provision. So I also welcome the possibility to still be able to record in MD-mode, just in case you need this. For example for demo use concerning classic users. Another thing is that it is about time to introduce a stationnary homedeck with all the facilities we already know from e.g. the Sony QS series, PLUS of course all the in and outs of HiMD recording, transferring, editing, level normalizing etc. Important is to have a stable bridge between the old and the new world (MD vs HiMD). This homedeck, as mentioned below could then be equipped with hard disk recording, which also might appeal to a greater audience, not nescessarily people who belong to the hard core live recording enthousiast, but it might help lesser fanatics to pinpoint their choice. This might strengthen the installed base of HiMD users. Thanks for paying attention, Oti (My first contribution to the forum) As I mentioned above. Let Sony do this and put a hard disk and more (e.g. CD recorder, solid state memory) in this dreamed of HiMD homedeck. It should be the bridge between MD and HiMD. The transfer center so to speak. GIve it more features and the big audience would hopefully buy this thing. By the way, Sony should refrain from profits on a HiMD homedeck, just because we all were faithful to the format for more than 12 years! 12 years and now we're let down playing with a dead-end HiMD toy. No come on with the full feature homedeck so there is a reason for the HiMD adept to live on.
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