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20 Oct: New servers for Forums and MDCP We've moved both the Forums.Minidisc.Org and Minidisc.Org sites to new servers (at Slicehost.com). Let us know if you find anything amiss. -Eric W. and Chris M.
15 Oct: Portugese MD fan's MD museum Jorge Monteiro from Lisbon sends us a link to photos of his wide range of Minidisc portables. (Page text is Portugese).
20 Sep: Sony DCM-M1 Service Manual Philippe Bergheaud kindly sends in the Service Manual for Sony's DCM-M1 Minidisc-based camcorder. But despite a plethora of wonderful diagrams, there seems to be nothing on the unit's diagnostic mode within it.
20 Jul: New for 2008: We add reference to Panasonic’s SC-PM670, a format-crazy MDLP-capable bookshelf system. Besides Minidisc and CD, the system also supports music on SD cards, Panasonic’s D-Snap MP3 players and even cassettes. Sadly, 100v only and Japanese-band tuner, with no Hi-MD support.
16 Jul: Minidisc a "useless gadget" According to a blog by Jason Stamper on Computer Business Review, Minidisc (spelled “Mini disk” in the writeup) as number 14 in the top 20 “Britain’s most useless gadgets” Interesting, when the site that supposedly commissioned the survey that led to the list is checked (revoo.com), not much more than a “this place for rent” is visible.
02 Apr: Engadget vs Gizmodo WIRED.COM and the April ’08 Wired Magazine print edition feature a story on the competition and practices of electronic device blog sites Gizmodo and Engadget. BTW, if you don’t already, check out these two sites periodically for the latest info on the audio and video electronics industry -- its gadgets, and its gizmos.
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