In Light of the Ipod schemes

[Sentential]

For some odd reason the Ipod never apealed to me. I was always content with Mini-discs. Especially now that they have 1GB discs available.

 

[stan03]

i can't take having to carry around disks. I have no idea what music i want to listen to at any given time. I prefer to be able to carry all my stuff around. My old but still working Archos Jukebox is 20 gigs . I do wish i could afford an ipod though

 

[Sentential]

i can't take having to carry around disks. I have no idea what music i want to listen to at any given time. I prefer to be able to carry all my stuff around. My old but still working Archos Jukebox is 20 gigs . I do wish i could afford an ipod though

The new 1GB discs hold 45 hours a piece. Where as the old ones held 5. No to mention they get 53hrs of battery life on *one* AA battery.

 

[stan03]

1gb is 45 hours? what format are you using? that batter life is awsome

 

[jimstandard]

will the High density minidisc work on older players?

 

[CAPiTA]

Nope

 

[zip22]

its 45 hours of sonys ATRAC3 (Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding for MiniDisc 3) compression system at the relatively low rate of 48Kbps

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/07/07/walkman/

this article explain sonys underhanded claims about their hd based "mp3" player, but the same applies to a 45hour claim of the HD minidisks