At 10:52 AM 1/5/02 -0500, Steve Cotsford wrote:
>With all this talk of MP3, does anybody use MiniDisk?
>My wife has one and I havent studied it yet.    What format does it record
>to?

The MiniDisk is a Magneto-optical format.  For recording your own stuff it
uses a magnetic format.  I use them all the time and love them.  There are
a lot of folks at concerts sneaking these things in.  They have an almost
perfect recording all in something smaller than an old Walkman.

>It could connect to her radio with a cassette adaptor.
>She uses it for live recording as a language teacher.
>I understand in Europe they are very popular but somehow haven't caught on in
>North America.

There is a distinct lack of pre-recorded MiniDisks in the US.  The good
part is that blanks are still available in the US and offer much better
quality than almost any other media.

Chris Smith
Geek