PMD670 stock should be in Europe by the end of August, we are just doing
the final software debug. Price wise it shouldn't be more than the current
PMD690 ( and may well be significantly cheaper ... ).
To answer some of Walt's points :
We have been over this ground. All the eggs in one fragile basket vs a
highly durable optical disk format with more individual units. Time will
tell how often people loose a entire trip's recordings when one bit goes
astray.
Compact Flash is incredibly durable, check the specs out on the compact
flash reference sites on the web, errors are so rare as to be
non-existent. Even if a bit does go astray in digital recording, error
correction can normally deal with any problems. All of our solid state
recorders also have facilities to ensure that even in the event of a
catastrophic failure, the file is still written safely to the disk.
Before you get too happy with DAT quality, remember it's a fixed 16bit
format, less dynamic range available than the 24 bit range that currrent
ATRAC gets by bit shifting. If you worship dynamic range, that is.
Whilst it is a 16 bit format, there is no compression or psycho acoustic
coding involved in recording linear PCM so the original waveform is
completely intact , as opposed to ATRAC ....
If anyone wants any more info, feel free to post some questions to the
list or directly to me ..
Best Wishes
Matt
Matt Jarvis
Product Marketing Manager
Marantz Professional Europe
Kingsbridge House, Padbury Oaks, 575-583 Bath Road, Longford, Middx, UB7
0EH, United Kingdom
+447796610410 - Mobile
+441753686080 - UK Office
+441753686020 - Fax
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