Christopher Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 From av-watch:[i have made the above image brighter to reveal the goodies]The article has stated that there is no release date, but according to my contacts at Sony we would probably see new Hi-MD units in Febuary or March. Expect these units to probably have features that were never present before in any MD generation.I'll try and find out more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xispe Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 well that really looks like a mockup unit... but... they are still using that "5-way control" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 What do you think about that blue disc? Could it finally be a differing color Hi-MD disc? woot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 The suspense is dangerous, but I find the severe lack of bling-bling on these next gen units quite dissapointing (I also realise that they are mockups as of now).The long stick thingy on the upper left looks like their Memory Vault line of USB Key drives. I'm thinking it's like the Sandisk model where you stick in said key drives and use the memory as storage for music.The upper corner round circular puck thing? S2 line of Flash players?And I guess they're still pushing netMD with PSYC line, but could those be HiMD units as well? Sub $150 HiMD Units? Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daremo Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 I keep checking different japanese sites for different colored hi md discs... Hopefully that little blue disc is Sony's Hi-Md Color collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doclloyd Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 Looks interesting... I'm also intrigued by the Pioneer "Connect2" device to allow some form of integration with the HD3 and your car stereo. :-) Of course, seeing Hi-MD head units would make my day too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 this is very good news indeed! cant wait for more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snathanb Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 And I guess they're still pushing netMD with PSYC line, but could those be HiMD units as well? Sub $150 HiMD Units? Interesting.←I only paid $129.95 US for my 600D, and that included an arm band case and a box of 5 80minute MDs. (As well as a 1GB and the typical accessories)They were all packaged together that way at Sam's Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 I only paid $129.95 US for my 600D, and that included an arm band case and a box of 5 80minute MDs. (As well as a 1GB and the typical accessories)They were all packaged together that way at Sam's Club.←thats a damn good deal you found there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 The article has stated that there is no release date, but according to my contacts at Sony we would probably see new Hi-MD units in Febuary or March. Expect these units to probably have features that were never present before in any MD generation.I'll try and find out more! ←I'm drooling over these mystical features... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snathanb Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 thats a damn good deal you found there!←Some stores still have them... In the Dallas area, only one store did, but that store (Grapevine, TX) had over a hundred of them...If you search on item 282866 on the Sam's Club web site, it still comes up, and you can check from there which stores have it locally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sony_man Posted January 10, 2005 Report Share Posted January 10, 2005 hmmmmm that unit thats all fuzzy on the far left looks kinda nice from the view that we get doesnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyonisus Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 That unit sure does look cool. All it needs are some racing stripes and long batt life and I'm sold..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 If only that close up had "MP3" written on it My feature for the day is a big fat chunk of RAM (possibly non-volatile like flash stuff) which is at least 1GB, you can then do quick transfers from computer to the unit, and then without being connected to a computer, the unit will slowly transfer stuff from RAM to the disc. The disc will never need to be read in the same spot twice, and there will generally be lots of cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdMaster Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 If only that close up had "MP3" written on it My feature for the day is a big fat chunk of RAM (possibly non-volatile like flash stuff) which is at least 1GB, you can then do quick transfers from computer to the unit, and then without being connected to a computer, the unit will slowly transfer stuff from RAM to the disc. The disc will never need to be read in the same spot twice, and there will generally be lots of cool ←This will kill the battery, and make the device extreme expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poe Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 The cosmetics reminds me of just about all other mp3 players out there ,YUK! Did anybody happen to notice that there isn't a single remote shown in this picture. This scares me alot I think Sony may just ditch remotes for these units, that would be a major set back to me.Hopefully they will still have a jack for them though.POE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmetal07 Posted January 11, 2005 Report Share Posted January 11, 2005 "... displaying the sport model of silicon".... sounds promising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 This will kill the battery, and make the device extreme expensive.←not to mention using that idea you couldnt even remove the disc until it had finished writing to it - it would take the same amount of time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 So, what would you folk like to see in the second generation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 So, what would you folk like to see in the second generation?←24-bit/96kHz recording (pipe dream)optical outa component deckthe ability to seek to a specific point in time instead of slowly fast-forwarding through a long track.better/more editing options on the unit itselfa spectrum analyzer on the remote during playbacka wee bit faster read/write speed, maybe 1Mbyte per second instead of 500-700Kbytesatrac3+ 96kbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 OMG! Sony are 'set to release a new type of walkman' - correct? those circular ones? they must be UMD players! the UMD is used in the upcoming PSP and apparently stores audio in ATRAC3+what does this mean for Hi-MD?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 not a whole lot actuallylet us examine. if sony starts releasing audio on UMD so what?no one owns players, and Sony has no intention of making them recordable (a deliberate point to stop PSP piracy).Small music library, no support, no user recording = no big deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 phew, great. Still, what are those circular players? They look too small to be CD to me. And that Prototype Hi-MD looks incredibly ugly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sxc Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 phew, great. Still, what are those circular players? They look too small to be CD to me. And that Prototype Hi-MD looks incredibly ugly←They look very similar to the still-born AIWA USB flash players. I wonder if they are the same, in Sony clothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_barbier Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 So, what would you folk like to see in the second generation?←Lower priced models with mic inputs and remote capability. More Hi-MD discs available. Headunits for the car. Decks. 24bit capability. Back lighting (if no remotes). Multiple band EQ. Incredibly small and sexy bodies (aluminum or magnesium). Digital amps similar to Sharp Auvi... I could go on forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MdMaster Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Lower priced models with mic inputs and remote capability. More Hi-MD discs available. Headunits for the car. Decks. 24bit capability. Back lighting (if no remotes). Multiple band EQ. Incredibly small and sexy bodies (aluminum or magnesium). Digital amps similar to Sharp Auvi... I could go on forever ←All this, and extreme battery life (100+ hours like some older units) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmetal07 Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 ^ ka-ching!seriously though, i would really like to see a backlit display on the unit, every other portable music player has one, why can't a minidisc recorder? definatly a deck also. the only think i dont understand it why can decks have an optical out but a portible unit can"t? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 ^ ka-ching!seriously though, i would really like to see a backlit display on the unit, every other portable music player has one, why can't a minidisc recorder? definatly a deck also. the only think i dont understand it why can decks have an optical out but a portible unit can"t?←portable CD players from Sony all do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 So, what would you folk like to see in the second generation?←LP2@132k & LP2@105k available in Hi-MD-mode when recording standalone.The Codec is there, so that's a no brainer...And a backlighted display on the main unit.And of course real home decks with all the usual things.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borealand Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 (edited) So, what would you folk like to see in the second generation?←- the ability to read MD-Data old disk format and read+transfer the multitrack recorder files on it to pc... - an infrared or (better) bluetooth serial port for file transfer - an "overdub" mode, i.e. kind of multitrack recording1st recording: one minute of music2nd recording over the 1st: vocals the unit can mix them, or you can listen/edit/delete the single track Edited January 14, 2005 by borealand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyc Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 A home deck would be nice.. with usb connections etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alieninhead Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 (edited) If only that close up had "MP3" written on it I spoke to one Sharon Blair--a Sony rep to retail @ my work and she attended the portable audio section of CES for her job requirement. She told me every new Sony product is MP3 native. I got excited and asked "Even the new Hi-MDs?!" and she nodded and said "Yes, even the new Hi-MDs."I guess we know what one of the mythical features are now.The reason it probably doesn't say "MP3" on the case of the black Hi-MD is because it was made before they switched over to this philosophy. Which isn't entirely crazy to assume--their CD players @ my work don't say "MP3 Playback" on the actual unit but their is a new black sticker with yellow writing that says "MP3 Playback" on the packaging. They probably didn't feel like repainting the cases they had already produced for the CD player line and just threw the decoder board in there.But, Sharon might simply just be mistaken. But I'm not inclined to believe so. ~a.i.h. Edited January 14, 2005 by alieninhead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted January 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 Shhhh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1980 Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I wonder if the new mp3 manager will work with the himd units Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atheodo Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I wonder if the new mp3 manager will work with the himd units ←My wish list is either gives Mac Support, or drop and play native MP3 support. If they do that, then sonicstage becomes irrelevant; my Mac recognizes my HiMD already as an extra drive, so I cold drag and drop my MP3s and then listen to my music. I will be in heaven if they do that. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1980 Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 I doubt it. The mp3 players of today from Sony do not allow drag and drop so HiMd would be no different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skmetal07 Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 they will still probably wrap the mp3s in a nice tight blaket of DRM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alieninhead Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 they will still probably wrap the mp3s in a nice tight blaket of DRM←I doubt it at this point: from my understanding the new Sonic Stage (2.3) took away check in/check out so they're pretty much moving away from that perspective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1980 Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 There is more to DRM than check in/out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Tires Posted January 15, 2005 Report Share Posted January 15, 2005 If they wrap MP3s in DRM on the NW-HD3 (and they do) then they'll do the same on Hi-MD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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