isitworthit Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 (edited) internal minidisc player for PC - did it ever exist? Edited March 14, 2009 by isitworthit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitworthit Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 (edited) new to forums and of MD usage. thanks for reply. can these devices still be got or would their limitations (if any exist) make the excercise pointless? Edited March 14, 2009 by isitworthit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitworthit Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the welcome!A journey not worth going on then!If the MD market was large enough then perhaps they would design an MD device that one could fit into say 5.25 inch PC tray just like they do with hard drives but i expect that such a thing might not be a massive MD user requirement. Anyway, i've dropped it twice allready today!See yer around.D Edited March 14, 2009 by isitworthit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sector001 Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 there were two Vaio PC models with built in MD drives...had I waited I would've gotten one. But i got the one with the dvd recorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitworthit Posted March 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 i'll look out for one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShriDurga Posted March 14, 2009 Report Share Posted March 14, 2009 (edited) I wasn't aware of the MD Vaio, but found some photos (and a Japanese description) here:http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/art...010912/sony.htmLooks like a few of them are available at Yahoo auctions:http://search.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/sear...=0jp&acc=jp Edited March 14, 2009 by ShriDurga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sector001 Posted March 15, 2009 Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 the vaio PCs with the MD drives are no longer being made, unless someone sells them on ebay or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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isitworthit Posted March 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2009 (edited) certanly looks like an MD disc drive - i'll take your word for it. also resembles the mac in some ways. it seems that buying one would be 98% pointless unless one could transfer data to PC. However, that 2% becomes a little more signficant - if not significant enough if one happened to come accros such a machine and morover, if one could take the MD bits out and put them into ones own machine - even for the hell of it. And then theres always the hope that someone might be able to mess around with the MD player and make it do things that it's makers didn't think it was capable of? Edited March 15, 2009 by isitworthit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bwil Posted March 19, 2009 Report Share Posted March 19, 2009 And then theres always the hope that someone might be able to mess around with the MD player and make it do things that it's makers didn't think it was capable of?In 2002 I read about an English company that had hacked an MD-Data drive for professional audio use. Their system could transfer SP audio to PC at high speed as well as defrag the minidisc. I inquired about getting one. The price was $4,000. And that was the end of that.Of course, this was done with a data drive. The drive in the VAIO is a NetMD drive and these seem to be limited in what they can be made to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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