Richard Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Akihabara news has details of a new Sony MD bookshelf system that also has a 40GB hard-drive: http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-10472...Dd+by+Sony.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MZ-NH1 Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 I haven't read the specs on this unit yet... but it LOOKS very sexy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Looks pretty cool..it would be killer with Hi-MD. It'll be nice for PSP users, although it is missing all of the new ATRAC3/plus bitrates and only supports 256/132/105/66/64/48kbps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1980 Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Looks really good. MP3 from HDD, I believe the prev. Sony HDD bookshelfs only played ATRAC. The price is going to be monstrous though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozpeter Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Here we have a 40gig HD CD player from Teac which were greeted by such a yawn from the buying public that they were cleared at prices reminiscent of the current sale of Hi_MD at MiniDisc Australia. It's like a hi-fi-unit-size iPod. Chief reason for buying it was that a member of our household uses a wheelchair and access to our sizable CD collection is actually problematic. Now access to any CD is via a convenient remote. Sometimes these inventions have more benefits than the inventors expect.Shame it doesn't play any form of MD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 Looks hot, but i would rather have a deck that had an hdd instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandoRod Posted November 2, 2005 Report Share Posted November 2, 2005 (edited) Here's more about the Sony NAS-M7HD. And a bit more on a Japanese site at http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/netju...M7HD/index.html . Edited November 2, 2005 by MandoRod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archivist Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 And this unit is NOT Hi-MD ... why??? Argh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 (edited) I honestly doubt people would use the md feature for recording that much with this thing having a hard disk. If i used it ,it would just be to play music ive already put on md, just to save space on the hdd. Edited November 4, 2005 by GregTheRotter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiesto Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) I was aware about this device almost a month ago, but I didnt know how describe it so I thought that my post would be vanished. Anyway, it's good to know the name of such a nice system. Edited January 4, 2006 by Tiesto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) Yep, Sony displayed this model at CEATEC 2005 in October. It is part of the AnyMusic agreement between 8 companies; Sony, Sharp, Kenwood, Pioneer, Onkyo, Marantz, Denon, JVC, and Yamaha, to have an online music service that bypasses PCs and works directly with consumer devices. You connect this to your network and surf the music store via the display. The only online-music service that these devices will connect to is called "Labelgate" and was started in August with downloads in atrac format. I wonder how much music Labelgate has available right now. JVC is set to release their first AnyMusic device, ux-hd1, on Feb. 1, 2006.I suspect if this machine, or subsequent models to it, is to be distributed overseas, US in particular, the name Labelgate will be changed since adding "gate" to the end of a word implies a scandal. Edited January 4, 2006 by bland10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommypeters Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I suspect if this machine, or subsequent models to it, is to be distributed overseas, US in particular, the name Labelgate will be changed since adding "gate" to the end of a word implies a scandal.With Sony involved, the "gate" would soon need to be put back again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 If you click around on the ad, you'll see it only tauts "MD"... no sign of HiMD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonicrage Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Go to the following link and click "Save" watch the short ad at the top, it's definately a Hi-MD in the picture!! It also has Atrac plus bit rates and can record in PCM, so i don't see why it wouldn't be Hi-MD compatible.http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/netju...M7HD/stock.htmlI've been waiting for something like this for years, nothings been able to compete with my now very old MD-515. These are going for about £350 in Japan too so not over priced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Yes, it does show a 1st generation hi-md disc being inserted and the bitrates that it can record in, 256 is a hi-md bitrate but there is nothing in the literature about the md that says it is hi-md. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theblueraja Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Go to the following link and click "Save" watch the short ad at the top, it's definately a Hi-MD in the picture!! It also has Atrac plus bit rates and can record in PCM, so i don't see why it wouldn't be Hi-MD compatible.http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/netju...M7HD/stock.htmlI've been waiting for something like this for years, nothings been able to compete with my now very old MD-515. These are going for about £350 in Japan too so not over priced.Umm... that button doesn't work... and I saw the ad before, and I did NOT see HiMD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 (edited) the button doesn't work in his link but if you link from the original post you can get to the same place; skip the intro and on the main page look in the middle where it says "save" then watch the demo in the top of the window. Edited January 4, 2006 by bland10000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shione Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Now thats wierd. if its Hi-MD capable why aren't Sony heavily marketing this fact on the units' promo page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 the button doesn't work in his link but if you link from the original post you can get to the same place; skip the intro and on the main page look in the middle where it says "save" then watch the demo in the top of the window. I may be wrong, but I think it mentions the 256 /48k bitrates in relation to Atrac CD's and not MD's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 I may be wrong, but I think it mentions the 256 /48k bitrates in relation to Atrac CD's and not MD's?Yep, right you are Richyhu, the atrac 3+ bitrates are for cd and the md bitrates are sp, lp2, and lp4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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