I agree with that, except if you have video cameras watching patrons in CyberCafes, will the cameras be looking at just the patrons, or the screens too?
Imagine a videotape of you entering your email passwords, viewing personal correspondence, and maybe even typing in credit card info on video.
All this in the hands on whoever is working at the coffee house (and we know they have steller background checks).
There are all sorts of tips out there to protect yourself when using a public computer or your laptop on a Wi-Fi spot, what good with that do when they can just zoom in on your screen?
[i]True, the US never picked up on the format, but in Japan it's hot stuff (1gb stuff coming later this year, and (supposedly) you'll be able to download MD--->PC too!....which if it does come to the table, should make an impact in the US market, seeing as that the largest and loudest complaint with the entire MD format is that you can record, but if you want to transfer what you recorded (say, a live concert), you have to go digial===>analogue===>digital; no dumping straight to your computer)),[/i]
But then what do you do once they're uploaded? I assume they'll still be in ATRAC/ATRAC3(+) format. You can erase the minidisc and use it for other things and I guess check out the uploaded recording to [b]three[/b] discs then if the uploads become like any other OMG file. But really, how useful is this? Unless Sony give us a utility to convert them to WAV files they are now uploaded recordings stuck in SonicStage. Can't be burned to CD (unless "checked out" into, yup, ATRAC cd's for Sony Discmans).
I like MD and am a Minidisc user, but it's a hassle to deal with Sony. Having the reencode all your Mp3 files to ATRAC is a bother for consumers, degrades quality, and wastes hard disk space.
With the new Hi-MD format the minidisc player is just a data storage format. Sony needs to give it up on forcing ATRAC on us and just let us play Mp3's in their original form. All it would require is a decoding chip in units and a couple minor software changes.
How about people who make concert recordings?:rolleyes:
Or for recording board meetings on a media more resilient than audiotape?
I record the local college radio staion with it (so I can listen to decent music even when I'm in some Top-40 radio pit).
Grabbing individual tracks from a friend's CD has already been mentioned.
Hi-MD will allow recordings made with the Mic-in port to be uploaded to your PC. It seems at the moment recordings made with the normal Line-In will still not allow uploading, though. Possibly because the line-in is optical/analog hybrid. But I think there should be flags for optical recordings and anlog should be allowed upload if Sony is going to be so unwavering in there being some restriction.
There is no restriction saying you have to use a low bitrate for a transferrable recording thankfully.
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I agree with that, except if you have video cameras watching patrons in CyberCafes, will the cameras be looking at just the patrons, or the screens too? Imagine a videotape of you entering your email passwords, viewing personal correspondence, and maybe even typing in credit card info on video. All this in the hands on whoever is working at the coffee house (and we know they have steller background checks). There are all sorts of tips out there to protect yourself when using a public computer or your laptop on a Wi-Fi spot, what good with that do when they can just zoom in on your screen?
[i]True, the US never picked up on the format, but in Japan it's hot stuff (1gb stuff coming later this year, and (supposedly) you'll be able to download MD--->PC too!....which if it does come to the table, should make an impact in the US market, seeing as that the largest and loudest complaint with the entire MD format is that you can record, but if you want to transfer what you recorded (say, a live concert), you have to go digial===>analogue===>digital; no dumping straight to your computer)),[/i] But then what do you do once they're uploaded? I assume they'll still be in ATRAC/ATRAC3(+) format. You can erase the minidisc and use it for other things and I guess check out the uploaded recording to [b]three[/b] discs then if the uploads become like any other OMG file. But really, how useful is this? Unless Sony give us a utility to convert them to WAV files they are now uploaded recordings stuck in SonicStage. Can't be burned to CD (unless "checked out" into, yup, ATRAC cd's for Sony Discmans).
I like MD and am a Minidisc user, but it's a hassle to deal with Sony. Having the reencode all your Mp3 files to ATRAC is a bother for consumers, degrades quality, and wastes hard disk space. With the new Hi-MD format the minidisc player is just a data storage format. Sony needs to give it up on forcing ATRAC on us and just let us play Mp3's in their original form. All it would require is a decoding chip in units and a couple minor software changes.
How about people who make concert recordings? :rolleyes:
Or for recording board meetings on a media more resilient than audiotape?
I record the local college radio staion with it (so I can listen to decent music even when I'm in some Top-40 radio pit).
Grabbing individual tracks from a friend's CD has already been mentioned.
Hi-MD will allow recordings made with the Mic-in port to be uploaded to your PC. It seems at the moment recordings made with the normal Line-In will still not allow uploading, though. Possibly because the line-in is optical/analog hybrid. But I think there should be flags for optical recordings and anlog should be allowed upload if Sony is going to be so unwavering in there being some restriction.
There is no restriction saying you have to use a low bitrate for a transferrable recording thankfully.
All this is in the press releases.