{"id":8194,"date":"2004-01-08T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8194"},"modified":"2004-01-08T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-08T17:12:20","slug":"revenge-of-the-portable-audio-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8194","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the Portable Audio News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/himd.jpg\" align=\"right\">The portable audio news just keeps coming. First, the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/3378627.stm\">reported<\/a> that Sony is still struggling to keep its long-languishing MiniDisc format relevant, this time with its new &#8220;Hi-MD&#8221; players (pictured right) and media, which store 1GB of music (which they claim equates to 45 hours of music at 48Kbps &#8212; does ATRAC really sound decent at 48Kbps? I doubt it) or data (so you can use it as a portable hard drive). Interesting.<\/p>\n<p> Also today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newswire\/2004\/01\/08\/rtr1203408.html\">Forbes reported<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2004\/jan\/08hp.html\">HP&#8217;s announcement<\/a> that it has licenced Apple&#8217;s iPod &#8220;technology&#8221; as well as iTunes Music Store for their own line of portable music players. It will be interesting to see whether HP actually comes up with compelling features for their iPod-alike or if they&#8217;re just starting an idea-recycling recycling operation. Maybe HP will be able to hit the low-end sweet spot that some (this editor included) think Apple completely missed with their recently-unveiled MiniPods.<\/p>\n<p> Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> for these juicy newsbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The portable audio news just keeps coming. First, the BBC reported that Sony is still struggling to keep its long-languishing MiniDisc format relevant, this time with its new &#8220;Hi-MD&#8221; players (pictured right) and media, which store 1GB of music (which they claim equates to 45 hours of music at 48Kbps &#8212; does ATRAC really sound &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revenge of the Portable Audio News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}