[BC] Mini Discs - Good or ? (newsgathering)

[Ron Cole]

For that type of money a Solid State recorder is the way to go.

I thought I read some place that Sony was discontinuing the MD because of
poor sales, everyone has gone iPod killing the MD.

Ron

On 1/19/06, dean tiernan <dtiernan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> essage: 1
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:46:02 +0100
> From: Goran Tomas <goran.tomas at email.htnet.hr>
> Subject: Re: [BC] Mini Discs - Good or ?
> To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>
> --- At 18.1.2006 12:21, Mark W Earle wrote: ---
>
> > >We're looking in to portable Mini disc recorders for some on - site
> news
> > >and comments gathering. Comments? The small Sony's in the 350-500 range
> > >are what is under consideration.
> >
>
> I strongly suggest you go with solid state recorders. MiniDisc is
> mechanical and therefore by definition prone to problems. Though Sony
> portable MDs seem to be of good built quality, there's is nothing
> that a news person/reporter can't brake in a pretty short period of
> time. Besides solid state recorders makes transferring to PC a breeze.
>
> There's a wealth of units available to choose from (which was not the
> case a few years ago): HHB FlashMic, Marantz PMD-660, Sony PCM-D1,
> Tascam HD-P2, Nagra Ares-M, M-Audio Microtrak, AEQ DR 100, Edirol R-1...
>
>
> Regards,
> Goran Tomas
>
> ************************
>
> Speaking as a former digital audio prod manager and current freelance
> reporter, may I STRONGLY agree with Goran. The new Cingular Itunes phone
> would be a better idea than a mini disk. I like the HHB Flasmic....all in
> one idea very much. Harris sells the unit which works with a PDA....it as
> far as I am concerned is the perfect newsgathering tool, an HP wireless IPAC
> and PocketRec. Now its not cheap, but many people already use PDAs...record,
> edit and transmit from the Palm size device...absolutely.
>
> I do not like moving parts...there are many times (even now, when I am
> running after someone and a whirling disk is not gonna take it. I know some
> of my cohorts disagree, but I covered the World Series with a codec, that
> had audio editing built in and it was great, I had ready made edited mp3 or
> mp2 or even .WAV to upload. Also with SD memory that can be popped out and
> into a reader.......there is just no way I would ever use minidisk. You get
> back to the station, plug your sd memory disk into a read, drag and drop to
> Audition and fly...
>
> Think mic, cables, batteries, disks on one hand. Mic, cable, batteries on
> the other. No comparison. The time savings alone is worth the initial
> investment (in my not so humble opinion).
>
> --
> Dean
> www.Audicy.net
> www.DeanTiernan.com
>
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