Are Hi-MD's tought to be recording media or not?

[ekiekitabaang]

The only thing I was missing from Net-MD?s was more versatility to mic/line in recorded material in the way that the task of uploading over 1 hour takes would have been easier and faster. In Net-MD one has to upload everything in real time and through a soundcard that will digitise the sounds from MD?s line (usually ear-plug) out. (Is there even line out in new Hi-MD's?)

While the versatility of uploading and the quality of recordings has been prized in these new Hi-MD equipment I thought it finally meant that now one can actually upload mic/line in recordings to computer to be edited further.

This seems not be the case. As if they were copyrighted music the uploaded recordings are not meant to be utilised. It is not allowed to transfer your own sample recordings to be utilised in multitrack projects, or distribute your own recorded lectures to students.. etc. unless you do the same pain taking real time sound card upload that was the case with Net-MD?s.

I was happy with the sound quality and the ability of long enough recordings with Net-MD?s but the upload functionality sucked so much that I returned my Net-MD after my first frustrating 2h recording of a discourse (never distributed because the utilisation was so time taking).

So is there any point of waiting these new devices?

.. while SONY's clear intention is that MD's are not meant to be used for distribute or use those Mic/Line recordings that is made by the user why there is so much talk about recording functions at all?

If someone records something it is without doubt meant to be used somewhere. Why all my friends who uses MD sees it nevertheless as mainly a recording media, but SONY makes it clear that the recording functionality is not meant to be utilised? It is technically possible but SONY don't want this to happen because of infantile copy protection thinking.

.. anyway as used to the times before USB people are still doing hours of frustrating coding because on the field these nifty little things are great.

Why everybody says that one has to wait until these devices arrive to figure this export incapability out? In SonicStage only way one can export one's own recordings is ATRAC audio CD's and Redbook Audio CD's. Isn't this clear?

If somebody can convince that these ATRAC CD's can be ripped and that the sound quality is as good as normal CD, I will still consider acquiring Hi-MD. Although it is irritating waste of time burning & ripping CD's too and the truth will remain: The recording possibility is not a real thing to be utilised in every stage of Hi-MD?s functionality, it is merely a decoration, a disconnected feature in the list of features.