Re: No recovery for Hi-MD

["oryoki2000"]

"Nick Roast" wrote:
> ...EDL in the UK offer a MD recovery
> service aimed at broadcasters... I am
> not sure if they can deal with HiMD or not.

I wrote to EDL for clarification, and received
this response:

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"At the present time there is no known method
of recovering data created by a HiMD recorder.
We operate the most extensive MD recovery business
available but are nevertheless limited by the encrypted
formats used on HiMD. These are risky machines to use
because of the lack of any remedy in the event of failure."
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I'm sure that Sony knows how to deal with their encrypted
file format, but they apparently are not interested in
providing a recovery service to the rest of us.  So Hi-MD
users are in deep trouble if they experience any sort of
Hi-MD disc error or SonicStage software issue.

--oryoki