Here's something to make you think how MD moves on: Alex Abad stumbles upon an old box for a Sony MZ-R30 with a pricetag of $699! This is likely to be the MD-MT899 in Europe.
We have some photos from Paul Perry taken at Sony's stand at Comdex a fortnight ago, including the MZ-R707 NetMD recorder and two unmarked NetMD prototypes: a full sized deck and a PC.ĪV-Land has some more info on Sharp's NetMD portable, the IM-MT880.
Meanwhile the portable Sony NetMD units are getting more coverage with Jan Ysjout finding the Japanese Sony Style NetMD pages and Robert Trail tried one out in Circuit City, Norwalk CT. We are starting to get reports of availability for Sony's $2800 MD-based PC, The Vaio PCV-MXS10. We are grateful to Conrad Sanderson and the Griffith University for providing the Australian mirror to date. Sadly, we lose our Australian mirror of this site on Sun 9 Dec. The text only is available online - halfway down under "Speed Metal".ĭavin Patton directs us to Sharp's Japanese announcement for the IM-MT880 Net MD. Paul Perry spots a picture and short reference to Sony's NetMD units in the 10 Dec issue of Fortune Magazine. Ray Tan spots yet another new, highly styled, MD unit from JVC, NX-MD1000 (Japanese). Nathanial Fenton reports Sony's tagline for a recent TV ad for the new line of Vaio desktop PCs includes a phrase along the lines of "Burn your music to almost anything - CD, MD or DVD." Ivan Martinez spots the Nakamichi MD-30z secondary head unit (part way down col 1) for use with their car CD units. NetMD News: MDCorea has an interesting collection of photos of Sony's MZ-N1 NetMD taken at the CEATEC show in Japan.Īnd T-Station has a MZ-N1 discussion well under way.ĪV Land has UK pricing for the MZ-N1 (£260), MZ-N707 (£199) and MZ-N505 (£169).īrian Geddes does a search on C-Net and finds a fair collection of shareware and freeware of interest to MD users. Vasiliev Andrey has a smart-looking Russian MiniDisc Info site. Ted Major has a new address for his Home-made Binaural Mic Project. We add Reactive Sounds 'Reporter' mic to our accessories listing.įrederic Filleul spots the new Marantz CM6200 CD/MD deck (Japanese Link).Īnthony Johnson finds an equipment summary on the previously reported Sony Japan NetMD pages. Full details on the snappily titled site.įabian La Maestra reads a DV.com article advocating MD (to an extent) for off-camera sound recording in a Digital Video shoot.
Jani Mantyla-Bla notes Sony are offering a discount on their PCLK-U5 PC link kit for European owners of compatible decks and MD systems purchased between 1 Jul - bringing the price to EUR50. Just when you thought you'd seen every angle of Sony's new MZ-N1 NetMD, MDcorea posts some more pictures, interestingly including some of the extra items packages in the box. was providing sluggish access with its Qwest feed and is now IGN reviews the Sony MZ-R909 portable MD recorder. Mark Bausch discovers a report that Universal will release rip/copy-prohibited CDs in the
Titling adapter for Sony portable MD recorders.įinds the Sharp MD-MT99 manual (pdf) in English and French onįinds a good Guide to Minidisc from a producer at KQED-FM. Professional concert ``tapers'' (primarily those in Europe).Ĭlarifies and corrects the details of building a User-settable, 5-color, ``Avantegarde'' front panel.Īlex starts the Dead-Center mailing list for amateur and Howard Chu finds Japanese info and photos for the JVC KD-MD1 in dash MDLP receiver.
By way of his page, we note yet another titling Man ager), an open source Linux titling solution for Sony Sony MZ-N1 NetMD portable recorder in stock at for US$415. The online MD blank e-tailer, gets their own domain name. MDPort-DG2 does work with the latest version of MacOS X, Mark Bausch spots a ZDNet article reporting that CD prices are headed for $10 each in the battleīlair Aakre reports that contrary to the Xitel web site, the Xitel Us his impressions of the Sony MZ-N1 and OpenMG, sadly he
We find the Sony MZ-R909 manual (low contrast, 6.3MB PDF scan) Interactive demonstraion of the unit's fancy illumination controls. The unit has a motorized front panel that slides down Points out a photo and Japanese info for the unusual Sony WX-770MDX double DIN CD/MD/FM receiver with