Sony and Sharp are the two major makers of minidiscs, however, they are not sold much anymore so you are more likely to find used than new. You can find models at Buy.com, eCost.com and AV Home Systems.
Yes, you can also buy rechargable batteries.
Yes, the Sharp MD MS722 MiniDisc recorder come in Silver and Black
Most minidisc recorders record in ATRAC3 plus format.
The Minidisc recorder was first introduced in 1992. It is a form of magneto-optical disc based storage device, mainly for music, made by Sony. It is now obsolete.
A mini disc recorder can be used to save any sort of audio file.
Yes it is durable, and should work good.
Yes, it is currently the smallest one made.
One can buy a data recorder from a number of online and in-store options. For example, one can buy a data recorder from Amazon and eBay among other places.
There are several different ways for a person to copy songs originally on records, tapes, compact discs or elsewhere, such as using a minidisc recorder, a CD recorder, or an analog cassette deck. Each of these three different methods offer their advantages as well as their downsides regarding convenience, quality of sound and price.If you are looking for the chance to retain the most quality of sound, you should get a CD recorder.If your interest is to maintain a budget, you will probably be more interested in getting a cassette deck.If you are looking for special features, such as being able to program your playback options, or to skip certain tracks, you should invest in a minidisc recorder, or perhaps a CD recorder.If your interest is to tote your recorder around, such that you may use it for live source material, like interviews, classes, speeches, lectures or concerts, you will want a portable minidisc recorder.Ideally, you will wish to use a recorder that makes use of the same type of media as either your portable player or your car depending on if you plan to listen to these recordings outside of the home.If you can afford the experiment, take a single song from a CD and record it using different kinds of recorder to compare the quality of sound. Don’t forget to take that song and compare the recordings to it.Playing back a commercially recorded disc would be out of the limits of a minidisc recorder.Another thing to consider is how much it will cost to buy blank media. For example, buying cassettes will cost less money per minute than that of a digital disc.Your CD recorder may not play a burned CD on every player.A minidisc recorder will probably not sound as good as a CD will, because it uses a "lossy" compression method known as the Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding, or ATRAC. Depending on the tape and its deck quality, a minidisc can vary in quality over a cassette.
It might not work properly. It might break sooner than expected as well.
There are a number of places where one could buy a mini DVR recorder online. A few such merchants are Fry's, Meritline, Sears, Smarthome, and Tiger Direct.
The iRig is designed for the iPod and iPad. It has a 1/8" 4-conductor plug which is not compatible with minidisc recorders. It is possible to make a custom adapter to allow you to use this mic, but there are other better mics that will work right away with a minidisc recorder without adapters, such as the Sony ECM-MS957.