Christopher Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Maxell Japan announced today that it will release three new MD media series on August 25, 2006. The upcoming release will feature one completely new design – known as the "plain style" – and new updates to its long running "Twinkle" and "COULER" series. +++The "plain style" series is available only in milky white color scheme; in 80min – 5-pack and 10-pack.The "Twinkle" series will feature five colors: blue, green, lime, pink and purple; in both 74min and 80min – individual disc, 5-pack and 10-pack.The "COULER" series comes in five unique stripe design; in both 74min and 80min – 5-pack and 10-pack. The "plain style," "Twinkle" and "COULER" media will have an expected retail price of 700 yen, 800 yen and 900 yen respectively. Note: expected retail prices are for 5-pack MD media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielbb90 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 WOAH, the minidiscs just keep getting sleeker!So just japan then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 The Coulers remind me of the Kenwood DMC-V33 series player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunebug81 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 The twinkle ones are pretty cool. too bad best buy or circuit city wont carry them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgdad33 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 (edited) I really like the looks of these, the "Plain" looks straight and to the point with a hi-tech look at the same time. I'll definatly buy some when they are released for sale. Edited July 27, 2006 by Electricman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Definately good lookers all of them, id they could only start producing Hi-MD, would be even bettermBob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamewing Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Do the Twinkles still have PLASTIC SHUTTERS?Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 The most recent "Twinkle" 2004 series still employ plastic shutters. The 2006 series appear to employ metal shutters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfastad Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) This is getting ridiculous. Companies still producing conventional minidiscs!Why would anyone put their faith in a format, when the old minidiscs are far easier to get hold of - you'd be forgiven for thinking that Hi-MD doesn't exist.Go on Sony, just give us a reason to stick with Hi-MD and we'll do it Seriously though, these look proper nice. If they we're Hi-MD I'd be all over them. Unfortunately I've got about 400 conventional minidiscs that are sat gathering dust. Edited July 25, 2006 by batfastad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 I wonder if you could just split the halves of the case take out the disc and replace with hi-md ones. That would be an easy solution, too bad after examining the md it seems difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianyiu Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Nice looking designs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPlitude Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I wonder if you could just split the halves of the case take out the disc and replace with hi-md ones. That would be an easy solution, too bad after examining the md it seems difficult.think someone has done this before in the pictorials or how to do section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andicillo Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Bah! No Hi-MD Blanks apart from Sony... Definitely rightts must be very expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levanel Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Maxell's plain is reminescent to one of the Sony Bianca styles, with their milky case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceways Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 Apparantly, these were released already (August 25th). Does anyone know where to get them? I checked Audiocubes (a Japanese MD retailer that sells to the US)and they don't carry them... yet. Any help is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valder Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 I wonder if you could just split the halves of the case take out the disc and replace with hi-md ones. That would be an easy solution, too bad after examining the md it seems difficult.Nope it is very easy to do. I had some pics of the three discs I did, but the pics are longgone now. I did two Niege discs and one Hello Kitty disc up as HiMD discs. I am getting a bunch of WA discs and plan on changing at least one of them to HiMD. Val Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bland10000 Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Finally found some of the new Maxell's with metal shutters. These are the Coulers...these are the Twinkles...These aren't Maxells but a new set I found at the hyaku en store... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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