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New Sony Minidisc Players

Posted by michael on from the restricted-and-proprietary dept.

Andy_R writes "Sony's has announced it's new new range of Hi-MD players at the CES show. The range of players (which should hit the shops in April) will start below $200 for a device that can function as a USB hard drive as well as storing a claimed 45 hours of music. The twist is that the data is stored on a new type of removable 1Gb media, a development of the minidisk format, with blanks costing about $7 each. The BBC have some more details including backwards compatibility with old-style minidisks and an ominous mention of 'built-in copyright protection' but I can't find anything on Sony's official site yet." Another reader reader submitted some pictures and specifications (pdf).

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  1. Re:Hey Michael by arashiakari · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good point.

    Same happens w/politics here though. There is a sort of "editorializing" that happens... you would have never seen a poll with an option of:

    SuperChicken: The Cock Rockin' Exploits of Bill Clinton

    But we get a poll option smearing two Republicans.