[MacDV] Mini Disk Recorders

[illovox at comcast.net]

What Mac has optical inputs?  Furthermore, I went round and round with sony
over the fact that their codec is proprietary.  You can load it onto a mac,
if you have an optical transfer, but not much luck using the files as
is...PC only file structure...

> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:57:20 -0800
> To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [MacDV] Mini Disk Recorders
> 
>>> Do any of you use Mini Disk Recorders to supplement your sound? If so
>>> what would be your recommendations on type to buy and how best to use
>>> it? Thanks for your help.
> 
>> Terrible aquisition device for Macs.  No way to transfer the digital data
>> into a Mac.
> 
> My big Minidisc Player has Optical Digital Input and Output, what is
> to stop me from plugging it into a Mac with Optical inputs?
> 
> Having asked that, I'd just like to add that I think Minidisc is a
> terrible device for audio work, as it uses compression.
> 
> Zane
> 
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