WOW. That HI-MD shit looks amazing!!! I like how they're catering to the main reason I prefer MDs to begin with: the ability for high-quality live recording. They've now implemented compressionless PCM formatting which means that recording onto MD would be just as comparable in quality as recording onto your computer via an $800 sound-card. Not only that, but I think it's fucking brilliant that by plugging into a USB, your computer recognizes the MD as just another storage drive. And then from there you can loslessly upload recorded content ONTO your computer for further editing! InFUCKINGsane. I think this HI-MD format has incredible potential for revolutionizing low-budget studio recording techniques. Not only that, but think about how much impact it will have on musicians who sample audio? They'll be covertly recording every little sound with no more difficulty than taking a photograph. Then they'll take it home and upload it and manipulate it. For the sampler, it's the audio equivalent of the digital camera revolution.

But as with any product, whether it catches on or not has more to do with advertising and hyping the "cool" factor than it does with the quality of the product itself. I'm not saying that the iPod isn't a great little gadget (don't get me wrong, I think the iPod is great at what it does), but Apple's marketing campaign was air-tight and the bottom-line results are telling.

But then again, when Sony really wants to push a product, their marketing is pretty good too. We only need to look as far as the Playstation for an example. But I wonder why the MD was never marketed to North American consumers? I never really understood why they didn't market it outside of Japan.

Taylor's version of an iPOD killer?

SONY'S HI MINIDISC: http://www.sony.net/Products/Hi-MD/

each disc is close to a Gig of storage. that's pretty good.

english is so inadequate, Beck, i read your correction as
i think faster than i type (like, i think faster is better)

instead of

i think faster than i type


or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate.
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate
or ofcourse I could be the one inadequate

sure you're not...

I think faster than I type...

that should be "I'm *not* overly interested in fashion"

Sorry Mary but I'll have to pass on that, if for no other reason than I'm overly interested in fashion. Plus, I wouldn't want to overshadow your relative coolness with my profound awesomliness.

Have fun though!

count-em paras, this makes 4 posts within the last hour...it's a new mary-record.

oh shit, I just realized it's snowing outside. When'd that happen? You sleep for a good 11 hours and it's like the whole world passes you by.

the latest i would need to know by would be...well...friday midnight? saturday morning? enough time to make plans?

i don't know, how about you let me know when you know.

but as for the rest of you...let me know...

Hey- it's n/a fahrenheit and 999 degrees celcius outside again! Sweet! But for the love of god, stay inside people, STAY INSIDE!!!

CAW CAW CAWRRLLEE JANE: I got you beat. I just woke up now. 3:05pm! Awwwww yeah!

Mary- I'd love to go to that fashion show with you, but I gotta check my schedule and stuff okay? When's the latest you need to know by? And Eric, I think the Red Star outing would also be an excellent idea.