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[TheBoy]

I have loads of them, my head unit is fine, but I can't see any new ones.

Does anyone make MD players any more?

hope not, sony over engineered junk.  I will happily educated your HU with Sammy

Alpine & Sharp made them too

Yes, but I'd wager you have a crappy sony version

The Walkman is pretty good, I prefer it to an mp3 player as it lasts for ages on one AA battery, and sounds great through my Sennheiser PX100s.

The home deck - definately no QS but is over 7 years old and still works well. Car player is around 7 year old too.

I bet most solid state MP3 players last better on similar batteries to portable MD players.

Over a year on one AA

I'm sure I could dig out one of my old MP3 players that has same battery for probably longer.

I'm guessing you don't use it much

[Martin_1962]

I have loads of them, my head unit is fine, but I can't see any new ones.

Does anyone make MD players any more?

hope not, sony over engineered junk.  I will happily educated your HU with Sammy

Alpine & Sharp made them too

Yes, but I'd wager you have a crappy sony version

The Walkman is pretty good, I prefer it to an mp3 player as it lasts for ages on one AA battery, and sounds great through my Sennheiser PX100s.

The home deck - definately no QS but is over 7 years old and still works well. Car player is around 7 year old too.

I bet most solid state MP3 players last better on similar batteries to portable MD players.

Over a year on one AA

I'm sure I could dig out one of my old MP3 players that has same battery for probably longer.

I'm guessing you don't use it much

Not overly much but it's there when I want it.

[tunnie]

I have loads of them, my head unit is fine, but I can't see any new ones.

Does anyone make MD players any more?

hope not, sony over engineered junk.  I will happily educated your HU with Sammy

Alpine & Sharp made them too

Yes, but I'd wager you have a crappy sony version

The Walkman is pretty good, I prefer it to an mp3 player as it lasts for ages on one AA battery, and sounds great through my Sennheiser PX100s.

The home deck - definately no QS but is over 7 years old and still works well. Car player is around 7 year old too.

I bet most solid state MP3 players last better on similar batteries to portable MD players.

Over a year on one AA :o

don't talk 'dangle berries', single state has no moving parts, unlike MD. You can't be using it more than once a month.... and taking the battery out when its not used.

[Marks DTM Calib]

And what prey tell is single state......other than a broken piece of silicon.

[Dave DND]

And what prey tell is single state

Not sure myself, but did a quick Google to find an expert, and apparently Ahmed Qureia, the Palestinian prime minister is working towards a single state . . . . . . .

[MaxV6]

ROFLMAO

If tunnie's your prey Mark   maybe he should say his prayers  



oh the fun, on So many levels....  

I liked mini disc , it was far more robust and reliable out on location than any form of purely optical disk (DVD-CD-etc) and took up less space in the flight case...

I still have Sharp portable and Sony & Tascam full size units...  , although they get relatively little use now.

how good the sounded depended almost entirely on which version of ATRAC you got, the later versions were almost acceptable for music, and many location ENG broadcast teams tracked audio to MD as well as Camera, at the time, it had an excellent compromise balance between sonic quality, and OB reliability.

Now largely made redundant by flash based devices, and the odd hard disk in a small box....    I've even seen some reporters using a Modified iPod for recording interviews.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its a shame that flash is only suitable for reliable short term storage at the moment.

[TheBoy]

Its a shame that flash is only suitable for reliable short term storage at the moment.

My own experience does prove flash is unreliable. Shame that the last one to fail was a bloody expensive 32Mb one that set me back over £200  

[tunnie]

oops meant solid state....

I have found flash great for short term memory card use... and thats what its for at the end of the day, and with 64Gb SD.... can take a whole load of pictures.

Just back it up to HDD when done....

[TheBoy]

oops meant solid state....

I have found flash great for short term memory card use... and thats what its for at the end of the day, and with 64Gb SD.... can take a whole load of pictures.

Just back it up to HDD when done....

And HDD is probably as bad or even more unreliable

[tunnie]

oops meant solid state....

I have found flash great for short term memory card use... and thats what its for at the end of the day, and with 64Gb SD.... can take a whole load of pictures.

Just back it up to HDD when done....

And HDD is probably as bad or even more unreliable

So RAID it... and make sure you buy the drives at staggered intervals!  

[TheBoy]

oops meant solid state....

I have found flash great for short term memory card use... and thats what its for at the end of the day, and with 64Gb SD.... can take a whole load of pictures.

Just back it up to HDD when done....

And HDD is probably as bad or even more unreliable

So RAID it... and make sure you buy the drives at staggered intervals!  

Still not a reliable long term storage solution.  If you saw how many drives we replace on servers used by most people here, you would understand why we back up to tape, which probably still remains the only viable high capacity, high speed, reliable backup medium

[Phil]

Mini Disc is fantastic, it NEVER jumps like a CD does when going over bumps in the car, and it will change from disc to disc without the 10 seconds of nothing like a cd changer does.

one AA battery in my MD walkman far outlasts a full charge on my samsung and sony MP3 players.

I have 2 systems in the house with mini disc players and 2 6 disc changers for the car, well worth buying in my opinion.

Don't forget Mini Disc has been around since 1992, at that time there was no such thing as recordable CDs, only DAT and i don't know anyone who bought one of those!!!!

Far easier to record and remove and shuffle tracks than a re-writeable CD will ever be!

Unfortunately the last 'new' head unit i know of was a couple of years ago when Panasonic bought out a unit that played CDs and Mini Disc via the same slot

[TheBoy]

Mini Disc is fantastic, it NEVER jumps like a CD does when going over bumps in the car, and it will change from disc to disc without the 10 seconds of nothing like a cd changer does.

one AA battery in my MD walkman far outlasts a full charge on my samsung and sony MP3 players.

I have 2 systems in the house with mini disc players and 2 6 disc changers for the car, well worth buying in my opinion.

Don't forget Mini Disc has been around since 1992, at that time there was no such thing as recordable CDs, only DAT and i don't know anyone who bought one of those!!!!

Far easier to record and remove and shuffle tracks than a re-writeable CD will ever be!

Unfortunately the last 'new' head unit i know of was a couple of years ago when Panasonic bought out a unit that played CDs and Mini Disc via the same slot

rechargable batteries aren't suitable for low power devices, hence AA outlasts rechargable devices.

[Martin_1962]

oops meant solid state....

I have found flash great for short term memory card use... and thats what its for at the end of the day, and with 64Gb SD.... can take a whole load of pictures.

Just back it up to HDD when done....

And HDD is probably as bad or even more unreliable

And my photos are copied onto 3 or 4 DVD-Rs each, and two external hard drives