MD/CD combo with MD to CD rec

[sebamjuzik]

Hi, is there any md/cd combo wchih record from md to cd too?

[sfbp]

Really there's no such thing. The technological difficulty is/was very real. At the time CD and MD were popular enough to have CD->MD in a deck, there was no way to simply process all that data in real time and reliably write it to a CD. This is all tied up with the fact that to get adequate performance and reliability you have to write a whole CD (or at least a chunk of it) in one go. Don't tell me about CDRW, the most hugely unreliable medium you could ever imagine.

Things have changed quite a bit since then, and I'm sure stringing the h/w together would now be possible. But the world has moved on to flash media.

Buy a computer (Windows, because Sony didn't really ever support Mac), get your music into that, and figure out how to burn tracks on a CD. We've all been doing it. I did it before I ever got heavily into MD, by making an MD recording, transferring it (painfully) to computer, and then burning the result.

[bluecrab]

No combo decks that I am aware of do that. For MD -> CD, I use an MD deck and a standalone CD-R. I also do some MD -> MD recording, somewhat painfully at 1x, although the results are good.

BTW Stephen, I have not succumbed yet to the MD/PC paradigm. -Maybe- I would have if only Sony had indeed supported Mac, but as you note, that was never the case.