| Jan 98: | Derek
Streeter (and others) learn how to
disable SCMS on a Sony MZ-R50. |
| 18 Sep: | Lo Fan
spots Sony's announcement of their new docking portable, the MZ-R5ST,
in
Japanese (or peek at the hasty English
summary). |
| 13 Sep: | Sony
announces (in
Japanese) their MZ-R50, E35 and E25 MD portables (with the salient
points covered in an English
translation).
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| 4 Sep 97: | Running on
reserve: Wolfgang Buresch punches through the 74:59 barrier, packing
up to 80m16s of audio on an MD! He also has further information on
creating
virtual MD tracks.
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| 21 Mar: | Still not MD
and still cool, an extensive set of pages now exist for Hitachi's disk based MPEG camcorder.
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| 9 Mar: | Hardeep finds Sharp's
comprehensive MD-PS1 digital camera pages. |
| 6 Mar: | Stephen Voser shows
details of the MD
manufacturing process, including an instructive gif animation of
the BPS Sprinter's disc carousel. |
| 4 Mar: | A peek
into the Audio MiniDisc Table of
Contents.
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| 2 Mar: | Another page on JVC's new XM-R2 MD recorder with the PDA-like pen
input. |
| 13 Feb: | The European
Commission has started a project to develop a Music On Demand
system, using MPEG Layer 3 and ISDN. |
| 12 Feb: | We interview
Balzer's Process Systems about the manufacture of MiniDisc
blanks. |
| 5 Feb: | Maxell's latest
optical disc technology offers 20 times the storage of CD.
(Thanks George!) |
| 17 Jan: | PC Watch reported
that Sony showed a concept stage prototype ``Picture MD Camera'' at Windows World
'96. |
| 17 Jan: |
Hardeep snoops out Sharp's comprehensive page for their new MD-MS200
portable recorder. |
| 16 Dec: | Sony will introduce a 650MB MiniDisc Data format this
Spring. This is also briefly mentioned in a PC
World Article. No word yet on what, if anything, this means for
the audio MD format. (Thanks to Colin and Hardeep, and to Harry Singer for
translation assistance). |