Your Top 10 Reasons For Supporting Hi-md

[Mikami]

Hi,

I am new to the MD forums and am very curious why we MD users all find MD so attractive? So, here are my questions:

What are your top ten reasons for continuing to use MiniDisc products and/or for supporting the new the Sony Hi-MD format?(Or) What 10 reasons would you tell your friends, why, you continue to persist in investing in MD. (Or) what 10 reasons would your tell your frineds to encourage them to start using/or to convert over to the Sony Hi-MD product line, rather than use something, else(like the I-pod or any other contender)?

An average friendly MD user,

Mikami

Here are my top 10

1.Great Looking Media and MD-Units

2.Good price of Media

3.Great re-usablity of Media

4.Super portablity(without being too small to use)

5.Awesome sound quality(PCM and Atrac)

6.recordablity (almost anywhere, anytime, from anything that makes a sound or music)

7. Great Editing options

8. Great price for MD units

9. Durability MD is strong and relible

10. Ability to upload any thing recorded to Hi-MD

(11)MiniDisc are avilable everywhere at least in Japan, in convient stores, groccer stores, department stores, shopping centers, parks, airports, and whereever you think of almost.

I wonder what other peoples 10 ten will be, I am so curious to know?

Mikami

[Bananatree]

1. 1 gb of expandible storage

2. Cheap media

3. User changable batteries

4. Uploading of hi-quality recording

5. PCM recordings

6. Analog AND hi-speed digital recording

7. MP3 support

8. Microphone recording

9. Connect Store

10. Simple Burner

BTW, I merged your posts.

[Syrius]

Old style Sp (True SP) sounds indistinguishable from the original CD. (At least to me.

It's an unique format with a certain degree of "wow" factor.

HI-MD plays PCM.

Hi-MD now plays Mp3.

The players are so darn tiny.

MD's are cheap.

Hi MD doubles a (slow) data drive.

Only 1 HDD-based unit can do that recording and then uploading to your computer thingy. Most Hi-MD units can do this.

OLEDs.

All your MD are belong to us.

[leenuss]

1. Don't just play. Record! Anywhere. Portable.

2. PCM! Just as quality DAT-recorders but with tracks, editing, lightweight discs and all other advantages of the MD.

3. USB! No "ordinary" digital out? Just hook it up with your computer, transfer your recordings and burn audio CDs.

4. Tired of the music on your disc? Change the disc then! No need to erase tracks to have space for new songs.

5. An 1 GB MP3 player costs as much as a Hi-MD player. With 5 Hi-MD discs in your jacket pocket, you've got a 5 GB player.

6. Got a bunch of old MD discs in the shelf? Reformat them in Hi-MD mode.

7. The battery of a MD player lasts hours longer than the portable CD players I've tried.

8. Data files can be stored along on disc. No need for USB memory sticks.

9. Instant editing of tracks on the player. Split tracks, name them and move around as you wish.

10. It's a Sony. The sound quality of those poor plastic "no name mp3 players" are disgusting compared to the quality encoding/decoding of Sony.

[dex Otaku]

1. Portable PCM recording that runs off 1 AA battery and fits in your pocket

2. Relatively inexpensive removable media

3. USB direct digital transfers to your computer [even with the limitations of SS, this is worth it]

4. Better-than-expected quality mic preamps and AGC for a portable

5. Acceptable-quality lossy compression [though I wish ATRAC SP were usable in HiMD mode]

That's it for me.

[KJ_Palmer]

My reasons (in no particular order) are:

1. Backwards compatability with old MD recordings and media

2. Removable media

3. Editing capabilities

4. Live recording

5. Recording from multiple sources (any audio/PC - except mac)

6. Small size

7. Variety of recording formats

8. PC Data storage/transfer

9. Future potential

10. Variety/design of equipment

Edit: 0. Sound quality (IMO) - goes without saying - surely the most important thing...

[bland10000]

1. removeable media

a. most everyone I know has md playing capability so we can share music.

2. I can record from various sources

3. the variety of equilizer settings

4. I don't have to recharge the battery everyday

5. I am accustomed to it

[Mikami]

Wow, there are some good reasons on this thread!

Oh, I forgot this reason: some CDs will not play in CD-rom drives because they imploy copy protection !Therefore, I use Hi-MD to optically record from a CD player to Hi-MD. And it is legal to copy to Minidisc ! But, it may or may not be legal to copy a copy proctected CD to Mp3 or to harddrive .

Without Minidisc I would not be able to legally listen to copy protected music on the go, with out using a CD player.

Glad I bought Hi-MD ,

Mikami

[zerodB]

I can't believe anyone hasn't uttered the word "gapless" yet....

[KJ_Palmer]

It's easily forgotten I suppose. That of course goes without saying as far I'm concerned - I've never used non-gapless (gapped?) recording medium or standard, and never intend to. It's be disastrous for my classical and/or live recordings...

[Rumz]

Without actually doing a top 10 list, here are some of the major things I like about MD, in no particular order:

1) One format, different manufacturers (Panasonic, Sony, Sharp, etc. I know so far only Sony has made Hi-MD... I'm waiting for Sharp, hehe.

2) Removable media

3) going along with #2, the prospect of having a deck, minisystem and/ or car deck to play discs back. Rather than having a portable HDD unit and having to have special interfaces made for it to be operated by car or home stereo, I like the idea of taking discs and just playing them back, not needing to hook the portable up to another system. I love having a full sized deck as well as a mini system for regular MD, though I never did get a car deck. It's kinda like mp3 cd players only much smaller form facter-- more portable than regular CDs, plus the discs are durable. I toss my discs all over and I've never had a problem with them. Can't say the same for CDs.

4) going along with #1, you'll see a variety of features and designs for one format. There are some HOT md units out there. Because it uses removable media you're not stuck with one manufacturer's designs.

5) portable recording. It's just so smooth using removable media record on MD and Hi-MD. Add Hi-MD's upload capability and it's even better.

Those are just some of the main reasons why I continue to be addicted to MD even though I use HDD and other formats. The cool factor remains while I grow tired of iPods, etc Maybe it's just the old-school mix-taper in me...