{"id":458,"date":"2004-01-08T19:15:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=458"},"modified":"2004-01-08T19:15:51","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T22:15:51","slug":"bout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bout time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>O<\/span>ver at the BBC an article discussing Sony&#8217;s latest attempt to push the MiniDisc: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3378627.stm\">the successor is called Hi-MD<\/a>.  The new format for the disks allows for storage of over 45 hours of music. Sony finally got the clue too (I&#8217;m sure I wasn&#8217;t the only MD owner who thought about this):\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Sony has learnt from the example of digital music players that use hard drives or memory cards to store music.<br \/>\nThe new Hi-MD recorders will be able to act as external hard drives, letting people store photos, presentations or documents on a disc. &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>A kind of late, particularly since Sony had the disc introduced in the early Nineties to <em>replace<\/em> the old audio cassette and to make it compete against Philips&#8217; DCC tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the BBC an article discussing Sony&#8217;s latest attempt to push the MiniDisc: the successor is called Hi-MD. The new format for the disks allows for storage of over 45 hours of music. Sony finally got the clue too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}