Guest NRen2k5 Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Well, Sony's definitely on the right track with MP3 support on MD. I hope it's a little better than on the D-NE900 pcdp.Ogg Vorbis support would kick ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPlitude Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 so many wants by just about everyone in front of me- damn, im drooling already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Well, Sony's definitely on the right track with MP3 support on MD. I hope it's a little better than on the D-NE900 pcdp.Ogg Vorbis support would kick ass.←True, but FLAC would kick even more ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug80 Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 How realistic would OGG and FLAC support be? When 3rd generation will support these formats, Hi-MD can potentially become a great succes amongst audiophiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerodB Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I would like to be able to be able to flip the front panel of the unit back a full 180 degrees, and use the internal optical laser pickup to fry an egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurriaan Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 (edited) I'm not sure if this already has been discussed but..I'd like the 3rd gen to have blu-ray. A laser with a shorter wavelength. I think capacity would increase to 5GB (cause the dvd is 5gb and the blu-ray disc 25gb = 5 times more).But I don't know if battery power would become a problem. I do think the blue laser consumes more power.. Edited March 27, 2005 by Jurriaan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I'm not sure if this already has been discussed but..I'd like the 3rd gen to have blu-ray. A laser with a shorter wavelength. I think capacity would increase to 5GB (cause the dvd is 5gb and the blu-ray disc 25gb = 5 times more).But I don't know if battery power would become a problem. I do think the blue laser consumes more power..←It would be nice, but it would also render older discs completely incomaptible. Or Sony must stick 2 laser in, but that's gonna be expensive and slightly more heavy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuba Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I think capacity would increase to 5GB (cause the dvd is 5gb and the blu-ray disc 25gb = 5 times more).←I don't think so. Hi-MD doesn't use the dvd laser.As for 3rd gen, support of flac would be oh so great! However, recording in flac would be probably impossible. But Sony would develop own lossless compression codec, which would allow recording... mmm...And don't compare flac with zip or rar. Lossless audio compression is based on entirely different algorithms. It's like comparing jpeg and mp3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NRen2k5 Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 (edited) True, but FLAC would kick even more ass ←I'm not so sure that would be a wonderful thing to have.For a lossless format, the CPU usage and the disc reading together would be a pretty big drain on the battery, moreso than any lossy or raw format.It would kick SO much ass though, you're right about that. Edited March 27, 2005 by NRen2k5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breepee2 Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I'm not so sure that would be a wonderful thing to have.For a lossless format, the CPU usage and the disc reading together would be a pretty big drain on the battery, moreso than any lossy or raw format.It would kick SO much ass though, you're right about that.←Disc usage would be less (about half) of PCM, since the files average out at 55%. FLAC for example has been written so that decoding takes little cpu-time (it uses less than mp3). There are already mp3players which support FLAC, and it's very power friendly (it's of course not as friendly as HiLP, but hey, I don't care as long it's reasonable).So decoding would probably be less than PCM, or on-par tops, and I have absolutely no problem with that.Take Apples iPod. It supports Apple Lossless, which is a slightly heavier codec. And we all know that iPods CPU isn't all that fast, so I think I can rule any technical difficulties out.And of course nothing stops Sony from developing a custom format, which is more power-friendly. Although I think it's going to be hard to beat FLAC, it's just a real good codec and was made with DAP's in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Yeah, FLAC is very battery friendly. OGG however isn't.But, if the 3rd gen incorporated Ogg support, I could definitely see using an md as my primary music player instead of my Karma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidedney123 Posted April 15, 2005 Report Share Posted April 15, 2005 Hi The thing I'd like to see most is the size reduced down to be the same as the MZ-R900 again. I do think that going back to removable, replaceable and cheap Ni-MH is a step in the right direction though. I'd happily live with the extra size over an MZ-N10 or MZ-NH1 not to have to put up with the limitations of the Li-Ion battery pack.Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shady101 Posted April 16, 2005 Report Share Posted April 16, 2005 foe 3rd gen i would like to see UMD players (the ones used in psp) with 1.8 gigs instead of himd. that would be cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hironiemus Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 imo it should not be a big problem to develop a laser to switch between normal <-> bluray. The electronics are advanced red laser is in every 20€ CD player. They could take the NH1 add bluray then it has the size of RH10 and a design like the RH10 and it's perfect (sure you can always add some more little features ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 Someone doubted if the theory of compressed lossless could ever get practical. I just pointed out it can and has been for a long time.←My argument is that lossless-packed -recording on the unit- is impractical [at this point in time]. Not that lossless packing itself is impractical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spare Tire Posted April 18, 2005 Report Share Posted April 18, 2005 Now lets not all go crazy just because it says here what would be the DREAM md unit. Part of what makes an md appealing is also the price, and some put that more as a priority than others. So i'd rather see them actually cutting down on some of the more useless options instead of trying to add more features. Can't think of anything specific right now though.Hell, if my MD could do everything i would dream of, it'd have to play every possible format, have an atomic battery that lasts for millenia, PDA with stylus, GPS, cell phone, play movies, video games, project holographic strippers, can teleport me to school, phaser, remote control a satellite that can scract my ass from space with a laser beam, do my calculus exams for me, and vibrate and pleasure me sexually. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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