ghersh Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 The most important feature of Hi-MD is *not* its high capacity, but its FAT directory structure, which makes it general-purpose media capable of dealing with some arbitrary data, not only ATRAC files like its predecessor. This in turn opens the possibility of using Hi-MD for any type of compression, not necessarily ATRAC3. I *really* hope either Sony or Sharp or someone else will implement some alternative decoder on Hi-MD player. If Sony is so paranoid about DRM, why not to implement MP4/AAC? The same level of security. I strongly believe implementing alternative encoding/decoding formats will really bring the Hi-MD media to the masses. In my particular case, I'm very much interested in Hi-MD as a media. However I absolutely have no interest in ATRAC, in any flavor. I've done some MP3 and moving to MP4/AAC as it's superior format and allows practically artiifact-free encoding at the average rate of 200Kbps. Being able to download MP4/AAC encoded material to Hi-MD and then play it back with MD player (without *any* transcoding to ATRAC) is a kill. I will get such a player without a second thought, and I"m sure many others will too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandsun Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 If you're so keen on MP3 or other formats, use the HiMD as purely a data drive, hooked up to a separate MP3 player. Like this one from Sandisk: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2004/01...09/sandisk2.htm Since the HiMD units are supposed to adhere to the USB Mass Storage class, anything else can be used to playback whatever data files you store on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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