campekenobi Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 I'm curious, since a CD-R holds just a couple hundred megabytes less than 1 gig, why does everyone here act like hi-MD is so revolutional? Plus there are so many other removable storage devices out there w/ much higher capacity, even DVD-R, that I'm not exactly sure what I am missing here. Even CDRW lets you do drag-n-drop interface if formatted properly (I think you only get around 650MB when u do that but still). Plus the CDRs are so much cheaper and, in some ways, take up LESS space w/ thin jewel cases or even paper sleeves. Which then makes me wonder even on the AUDIO side of things, if you had a CD-MP3 portable or car stereo, you'd still fit close to the amount of the 1gig hi-MD disk of music. Grant it the mini-disc has it's physical size advantage, which could be the whole point, but I was just wondering what I may be missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phox Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 this is just my personal reasoning, and may not convince ya otherwise. physically, i find minidiscs a much better option than discs. They are smaller, are much more rugged, dont have to worry about how you treat them as much, and dont need a case, as in you can throw them where ever. This seriosuly decreases the hassle and stress factor for me when it comes to handeling and treating it. Also, my burner burns onto cd-rw's pretty slow and sometimes has trouble reading large (hundreds of megs) files without it just crapping out. i mean, that's pretty much it for me, still burn a few things to cd's, like large file backups, and put thos in a case somewhere safe somewhere. but like storing video clips, music, pictures, i put into mindisc's. I'd rather have a few minidiscs laying around onto of my monitors and coffee tables and such than fragile cd's. It just works for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 While I don't have one, I can imagine that an advantage is that it is convenient for the same reason that a USB memory stick is more convenient than a CD - not everyone has a burner, and currently there are a few incompatible implementations of rewritable CDs (well, there were, if you are using only the latest stuff there may not be... not sure). Being able to use it on other computers (like ones at work and school) with read and write may be useful for some. I don't own one, I'm going to wait to see if they fix everything first and hang on to my MZ-R70 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeroxide Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 ...While I don't have one, I can imagine that an advantage is that it is convenient for the same reason that a USB memory stick is more convenient than a CD - not everyone has a burner...I'd imagine that more people on average would have a burner than a hi-md. While it is too slow for my taste to place any files over 15-30 mb, the convenience is there if I do decide I wish to use it. MD's are much more robust than cds and very handy at storing my homework so my MD's carry my music and uni assignments :laugh: a usb stick is a better alternative for this, but I tend to loose things. My MD though is required for most of the day as I am a music student. Having this extra feature added is primarily convenient. using it as a tool to backup 1gb of data... I don't think so. I do not want to wait approx 1 hour to backup 1gb of data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Not revolutionary, perhaps, but handy - I regularly use the NH900 to back up and copy over smallish files to and from my home/work computers. Better than a floppy anyway and more convenient for most things than a CD/DVD-RW writer, and it fits comfortably in my pocket. And of course I can use it as a music player and recorder. All in all not too bad really... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 I'm curious, since a CD-R holds just a couple hundred megabytes less than 1 gig, why does everyone here act like hi-MD is so revolutional?Well, there is another point: Reliability. Until now, I had very little problems even with very old discs. My oldest discs are about 8 years old and they record and play back just fine. In comparison, a lot of CD-R/RW failed over that time on me. An estimate of 40% of these CDs are now unreadable. No, not scratches, just ageing. Reflective layer oxydizing, lacquer peeling off on the label side, writing layer slowly losing its optical characteristics - I've never had that trouble with Minidisc. The only thing to observe: Stay away from Memorex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeroxide Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 and princo, turns green and peels if you leave them in the light or anywhere where it might be a little more humid than average. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borys Medicky Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 Jadeclaw, when you say to "stay away from Memorex", do you mean their recordable CDs? Or do they make minidisc blanks as well? BM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 They make Minidisc blanks as well, and I would agree, stay away from them. I've had no problems with the Japanese ones, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted December 7, 2004 Report Share Posted December 7, 2004 I'd imagine that more people on average would have a burner than a hi-md. I was more referring to the fact (or opinion) that more people carry Hi-MD players around with them than there are carrying around CD burners which are UMASS compatible (ie can work without fancy drivers) - I don't think there are any such burners in existance - and most people who are carrying a HiMD disc will also be carrying a player - not the case for CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anigan Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 I own a compaq armada m300 notebook. The main reason I purchased this notebook for school was because of the size and weight. Being in trade school with copious amounts of books, one tries to keep the eccess weight down. Having a rediciously small and portable laptop had to come with someprices to pay, mainly in my case the lack of drives.This model came with a base that attaches with a CD-Rom and a floppy, but when detached it is super portable but has no means of transporting data. I already owned a NetMD player, so I figured that i carryit all the time, why not get a hi-md for storage, which I did for christmas So that was my reasoning for using the data storage capabilities, along with the ruggedness and such of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbetsho Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 and since Hi-LP is about as good as 128kbps mp3 then Hi-MD can hold much more music than a CD, or try to enjoy 64kbps mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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