> every year. There is going to come a time in the not too distant
> future when the cost difference between a 1GB CF card and a $7 1GB
> Hi-MD disc will be insignificant for most users. Agreed, it is not an
FWIW the blanks media are now on sale and were *introduced* at three for
US$10, less than half what was originally floated! $3.50/GB is going to
be hard to beat for a good while!
My hope for an HHB-style device using Hi-MD is that it writes to the
*data* area, which would allow transparent file transfer as well as
recording at arbitrary quality -- at the price of compatability with other
audio players.
My further idea: it would cute to optionally write a low-bit-rate ATRAC
version to the audio area as a "thumbnail" and full 24/88 (for example) to
the data area as the "real" data... then you could review your recordings
on any Hi-MD player, and still have arbitrary quality recorded to the data
area for drag-and-drop to any PC. If only!
I was just reading in the latest Wired about NTT's cute, postage-stamp
sized no-moving-parts holographic memory chips -- extremely light, 1 GB
scaling to 10 GB they hope. Far enough along in its life cycle that
they're shopping it around as a CD/DVD replacement -- very hard to pirate
since:
However it sounds like the technology to *write* them is very non-trivial,
so much so that though the article didn't address this is seems impossible
that it'd end up in any personal recording device (let alone a portable
one) anytime soon (decades?).
best,
aaron
http://www.quietamerican.org
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