North American MD

[ozaustin]

I am a newbie to this forum and was hoping that someone might be able to clear up something for me. I bought a MZ-NH700 in Australia were I used to live. I have just recieved a Pioneer D707 in Canada where I NOW live and none of my disks work in it. Does anyone know if Minidiscs have a region like CD's and DVD's. The error that comes up is "UTOC R ERR" and that one is not in the manual. The "R" is what concerns me. I just recorded music from my Australian MD on the North American D707 and it did not APPEAR to record. (The level meter registered it but it then came up with a "TOC W ERR" which tends to lead me to believe it did not write. but then I put the newly recorded disc BACK in my Australian MZ 700 and it had recored fine.

Anybody got any Ideas. I'm not bothered if I need to get North American discs as I have all of my music on file on my computer

Thanks

OzAustin

[eriktous]

MD's do not have a region.

The Pioneer D707 is a relatively old deck and thus can only play disks recorded in ATRAC, also called SP.

My guess is that the disks you made with the NH700 are either recorded in Hi-MD mode, or in standard MD mode, but with LP2 or LP4 (ATRAC3), none of which your Pioneer can play.

[raintheory]

Your NH700 is a Hi-MD recorder which uses formats that are not backwards compatible with the Pioneer. If you record onto a Hi-MD disc, or onto a standard MiniDisc in either PCM, Hi-SP or Hi-LP, you will only be able to play those on another Hi-MD unit.

You can select "NetMD" mode in SonicStage (or record in SP/LP2/LP4 on the unit itself) and those recordings should play fine on the Pioneer.

EDIT: Disregard the LP2/LP4 formats above. The D707 isn't compatible with those LP modes either. You will need to either record in SP using the unit, or SP compatibility mode via SonicStage.

Edited January 23, 2007 by raintheory

[ozaustin]

The strange thing is that the discs that I am trying to play in the D707 were recorded on an older model Sony, not on the MZ 700. The only reason I bought the MZ was because the original MD deck I had was only 240 V compatible. If I had known how cheap voltage converters are here, I would never have left it behind. It was BULLET PROOF. I toured all over Australia with it and it still performed without a hitch.

Does it sound like the laser might be shot on the d707? The guy i got it from never used it as he had no discs and didn't know how to use it. he gave it to me gratis and said if I could get it to work to throw him a few bucks. I'm just wondering whether it's worth repairing, and who repairs minidiscs in Canada. Sony don't seem to even want to know about MD in Canada for some reason. It's bizarre because they are very popular with musicians. Much more reliable that midi players.

Anyone???

[bluecrab]

Hi,

Does the 707 work at all? What happens when you put a NEW blank MD in it? Same error msg? Will it record? What've you tried other than playing MDs that were recorded on the Sony?

I have a Pioneer MJ-D508 deck. It's pretty closely related to the 707. It ocassionally would have a problem reading from or writing to MDs that'd been created on one of my Sony decks/portables.

I recently used the 508 for the first time in a couple of years. Mainly it worked, but if I remember correctly there was one MD it didn't like, probably because of the problem I already noted