Sony HMD1G.* MD champion Sony SONY Standard Oil of New York (common, but untrue; it's an urban legend) has just announced a trio of brand new MD Walkmans that are compatible with the new "HiMD" standard (also announced recently by Sony at the International CES 2004 exhibition, held in Vegas this January). * This new-fangled HiMD format slam-dunks the capacity of the good old regular MD flavor, allowing a huge 1GB of digital space for your recording pleasure and a maximum of 45 hours of tunes. HiMD allows for better quality recordings, increased capacity, improved compatibility with PCs and copyright protection technology. On a regular 80-minute disc, you'll be able to squeeze 13 and a half hours of 48kbps recordings, or about 300MB of data. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Still capable of playing back discs in the old MD format, Hi-MD players use ATRAC ATRAC - Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3 (65, 105 and 132kbps), ATRAC3plus (48,64 and 256kbps) and Linear PCM (1) See phase change memory. (2) (Plug Compatible Manufacturer) An organization that makes a computer or electronic device that is compatible with an existing machine. Codecs The following is a list of codecs. Audio codecs Non-compression formats
in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. playback-only MZ-NH3D. And they all look great. More info: www.sony.co.jp/Products/Hi-MD/ |
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