Sony MZ-DH10P MiniDisk Player

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.akihabaranews.com/news_9285.html' target='_blank'>http://www.akihabaranews.com/news_9285.html</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/SONYT12.JPG" /> <br /><br />This new player from Sony is a bit of a departure and a step in the right direction, but it is probably too little too late. It plays MP3's and has a color LCD. The article also mentions that is has a function <i>"which allows you to take pictures and store them onto the player and view them afterwords"</i>. However, it is not clear if the camera is built in (hard to tell from the picture), you can copy pictures from a camera directly to the player (which would suggest it was a MD recorder rather than a player), or the device just will show pictures that you previously stored on a MD (would presume you have a MD drive in your PC - if such thing even exists).

[Chris Gohlke]

Darius just sent me an update on this item. (Thanks!)

Sony has a press release out on this at http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/5658

The MZ-DH10P will have a 1.3MP camera, and 4x digital zoom.

[Philip Colmer]

or the device just will show pictures that you previously stored on a MD (would presume you have a MD drive in your PC - if such thing even exists).
I'm pretty sure that when you connect the device to your computer via USB, the MD disc just appears like a removable disc on the computer, just like a flash memory key. This is one of the major enhancements over the previous MD devices which only stored music - the new range can store PC files as well.

--Philip

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

I like this one myself:

http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH10.html

Why couldn't they have done this 5 years ago?

[Philip Colmer]

I like this one myself:

http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sony_MZ-RH10.html

Why couldn't they have done this 5 years ago?
Indeed :-).

One thing I'm keen to find out is to do with recordings that you make on the device itself. On the original recorders, you could do digital &amp; mic recordings but the only way to extract the audio was to play it back through the line input on a sound card and re-capture it.

I'm hoping that, with the new models, you can do the digital/mic recording, which creates an audio file that isn't DRMmed and the device allows you to drag that back onto your PC without the need to re-capture.

45 albums on a single Hi-MD disc sounds good :-).

--Philip

[Darius Wey]

I'm pretty sure that when you connect the device to your computer via USB, the MD disc just appears like a removable disc on the computer, just like a flash memory key. This is one of the major enhancements over the previous MD devices which only stored music - the new range can store PC files as well.

Spot on. That's the "new-ish" Hi-MD technology incorporated into all of their recent units. The previous NetMD didn't allow it to be accessed as a removable drive. All that could be done was quick transfer from MP3, WMA, WAV to ATRAC/ATRAC3 (speeds depended on what mode you were recording in - i.e. Mono, Stereo, MDLP2, MDLP4). Then there were the players before that which could only record in real-time. That's what I got! But oh my, it's aging... :P

[Darius Wey]

I'm hoping that, with the new models, you can do the digital/mic recording, which creates an audio file that isn't DRMmed and the device allows you to drag that back onto your PC without the need to re-capture.

These new models are pretty exciting, although I'm willing to wait until the next batch of units to be released, which I can promise you will be very exciting indeed.

[Philip Colmer]

These new models are pretty exciting, although I'm willing to wait until the next batch of units to be released, which I can promise you will be very exciting indeed.
Oh, you tease! :P

--Philip