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    Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

    The HD-DVD/Blu-Ray thread prompted me to start this thread. I just recently bought a Hi-MD (Minidisc) player from my work on clearance for 70 bucks. It uses a special kind of minidisc called Hi-MD that can hold a gig of information. I tried to explain to this guy at work that, yeah, even though it's pretty much obsolete, instead of getting a digital media player for about 50 dollars more, and SD cards that cost $70 and up for a gig of storage, I instead invested in this, where a one gig disk only costs about $5. I've been at my buddy's house all night transferring music onto it through USB (among other things, of couse...the transfer rate isn't THAT slow). So far, I've got over 200 songs on it, and these are mostly long songs (about half the disc is electronic music, so the songs tend to be a bit longer, especially The Orb). Now let's think about this logically...$70 for something I can go right to the store to buy, or $5 for something I can readily find on E-bay...you do the math. Feel free to agree or disagree.
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    #2
    Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

    Nice. 200 songs on a $5 disc is kind of awesome.
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      #3
      Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

      Well, it sounds like something you can enjoy. A love of music is something that more people could use. In a few years, of course, you'll have to upgrade to some new thing to keep up with the technology, but that's just part of the technological advancement of the world.

      It's hard to believe how quickly things are considered "obsolete." Next year, when PS2 systems costs $50 new, we will be reminded of this yet again.
      " I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me. " - Jesus

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        #4
        Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

        Minidisc was cool for a while but recording in real-time like a CASSETTE TAPE got aggrivating really fast.

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          #5
          Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

          I used an MD player for a few years before my parents got me an ipod nano for christmas. Ive been trying to sell it, but just about everybody has something better already.

          Its just a regular MD player. Its discs only hold aorund 250mb, and you cant use Hi-MD's in it either. Ive got a pack of the discs too.

          Still gets like 40+hours of music off one AA though, depending on how loud you like your music, wich is pretty cool.

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            #6
            Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

            Have you heard of the iPod? They're pretty nice.

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              #7
              Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

              Originally posted by Smurtle
              Have you heard of the iPod? They're pretty nice.

              Have you heard of not owning a computer, not wanting to pay $.99 a song, not having $250 to spend on one, and not having any CDs in my collection (currently, I only have about 200 CDs that I don't really listen to...I used to have over 700, but all my good CDs got stolen) worth putting on one.

              Therefore, I really do not envision myself ever buying an iPod. I'll stick with Minidisc for now, thanks. I've been using older minidisc players/recorders for going on 10 years now, so I am familiar with and like the format. That, and technology scares me...

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                #8
                Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

                Why do people think you need to pay 99 cents to download music?

                You guys are nuts.

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                  #9
                  Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

                  Well, those music artists have to make money off of their music somehow.
                  "What if like...there was an exact copy of you somewhere, except they're the opposite gender, like you guys could literally have a freaky friday moment and nothing would change. Imagine the best friendship that could be found there."

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                    #10
                    Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

                    wow.

                    A lot of you are dumb.

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                      #11
                      Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

                      Originally posted by Smurtle
                      Why do people think you need to pay 99 cents to download music?

                      You guys are nuts.

                      I was under the impression that unless you want to rip your CDs onto the iPod, the only downloaded music you could use was stuff off of iTunes, which costs $.99 per song.
                      I am not nuts, btw. I get downloaded music from one of my buddies. Where he gets it, I am not sure. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't pay for it either.

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                        #12
                        Re: Minidisc is at the height of fashion (at least in my life)

                        iPods are mp3 players. mp3 is a digital music format that's widely available throughout the internet, for free.

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