> The HBB looks like a professional recorder, but how do you overcome the
> minidisk protection against uploading, what is different about burning it=
to
> a CD?
To clarify, there's nothing about MD that prevents you from digitally
transfering your recordings -- if they have SCMS bits being twiddled,
they're ignored by every SPDIF sound card I've seen. From the perspective
of making real-time digital transfers it is identical to DAT, perhaps
slightly easier since MDs can skip between tracks, etc.
The annoying limitation Sony built into current MD decks is that you can
do high-speed downloading to them via USB, but not USB uploading off them
-- regardless of a track's origins. Painful.
But, the new Hi-MD apparently remedies this partially, by allowing you to
do USB-based transfers of your own *analog* recordings (ie, made via a
deck's line in or mic in, but presumably not its optical digital in) --
though the throughput is apparently not that amazing, at least compared to
CF or HD recorders. But it'll still be much faster than real-time digital
dubbing which is what you're limited to today (unless you have a
proprietary system like EDL's). This seems well-confirmed, but until the
decks ship no one knows how this will actually be...
best,
aaron
http://www.quietamerican.org
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