This technical war has been going on since DAT appeared and SCMS with
it... variations on a theme: freeing the consumer (and/or) locking
the consumer in a box. I am very disappointed with Sony, as I have
been so many times. (I suspect internal sony strife over these
issues) But let's not throw the baby out w/ the bathwater:
The big excitement over HiMD is over the file transfer, but the most
basic functionality (recording) is still there even with the former
crippled. I haven't checked, but perhaps there are full sized decks
with spdif out? It's not as convenient, but it _would_ let you get
to the recordings without quality loss.
We still have: long recording times, inexpensive (very)portable
recorders, easy powering with commodity batteries, easily accessible
recording media.
Sony throws the bathwater out, we keep the baby.
Spoken as someone still nursing a DAT habit, and accustomed to
playing the material into my computer. It does give one an
opportunity to listen to everything recorded, which ain't always such
a bad thing.
-j
>So even analog input recordings will be encrypted?
>I thought I read that only the recordings of the
>digital input would be?
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>--- Rob Danielson <> wrote:
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>> Exactly, its hardest on the beginners, which is
>> tragic. We ordered 60 HiiMD units very excited
>> that the students could take one home for the
>> semester, make panasonic wm-61a capsule mics,
>> journey forth anytime they wish, do digital
>> transfers on their PC's, upload sound files to
>> the class server and basically get into some of
>> the most rewarding aspects of field recording
>> quickly. There are work-arounds, but beginners
>> rightfully have a limited capacity for tech
>> detail.
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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