Sony MINIDISC manual Sony Dadc Company, Sony Dadc Austria

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Sony DADC Austria

4. Sony DADC –

The Company

Sony DADC Austria AG, is a hundred percent daughter company of the Sony Corporation, was founded in 1986 to cater to the requirements of the European CD market. Since then, the Compact Disc has emerged as the dominating sound-carrier. In 1996 more than 900 million units were sold in Europe. The CD has also become the basic techno- logy for other optical storage products like Laser Disc, MiniDisc, CD-ROM or Play Station Disc that were introduced on the market.

With a quantity of more than 300 million CDs ship- ped annually Sony DADC is one of the leading

Facts and Figures:

Manufacturers of optical storage media in Europe. With two plants in Salzburg and the worldwide net- work with subsidiaries in Japan, Hongkong, Australia, USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, we guarantee supply to our customers with the highest quality and top serviceability.

A separate development division with world- wide networking ensures the step ahead in production technology and is ready to meet specific customer requirements. But above all, here we create the basis for new products in the future so that we can ensure that the Sony group will be your partner in the future, too.

Sites:

Factory I - Anif/Salzburg

 

 

Customers:

approx. 2500

 

 

 

 

 

Factory II - Thalgau/Salzburg

 

 

 

 

(International and European music and film com-

No. of employees:

1997 approx. 950

 

 

 

 

 

panies, publishers, multimedia and information

 

 

 

 

 

providers as well as computer and video game

Capacity:

1997 1,2 mio/day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

companies and the majority of software and

Production quantity: more than 300 million

 

 

 

 

 

hardware manufacturers)

 

 

 

ISO 9002:

Certification 1995

 

 

 

 

annually

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our products:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Product

 

 

Use

 

 

Size

 

 

Specification

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Compact Disc

 

 

Audio

 

 

12 cm

 

 

max. playing time 77min.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 cm

 

 

max. playing time 21min. 50sec.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laser Disc

 

 

Video

 

 

30 cm

 

 

max.playing time 120min.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(two sides)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD-ROM

 

 

Information processing/

 

 

12 cm

 

 

max. 680 MB

 

CD-I

 

 

Multimedia, Interactive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Entertainment

 

 

8 cm

 

 

max. 192 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video CD

 

 

Video/Film

 

 

12 cm

 

 

depending on combination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

audio/video/data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MiniDisc

 

 

Portable Audio

 

 

6,4 cm

 

 

playing time approx. 74 min.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PlayStation

 

 

Interactive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disc

 

 

Entertainment

 

 

12 cm

 

 

max. 680 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD EXTRA

 

 

Multimedia, Audio,

 

 

12 cm

 

 

max. 74 min. 30 sek.

 

 

 

 

Video, Data

 

 

8 cm

 

 

max. 655 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MD Data

 

 

like CD-ROM

 

 

6,4 cm

 

 

max. 140 MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A U S T R I A

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Contents Minidisc Manual Table of Contents Introduction Features FeaturesRecordable MiniDiscs What it is and How it worksWhat it is and How it Works Premastered MiniDiscs for Music SoftwareOverwrite Mechanism Overwrite TechnologyReprogramming the Order of Music Quick Random AccessThreshold of Hearing Atrac Digital Audio Compression TechnologyShockck--ResistantResistantMemoryMemory Premastered MD has following additional advantages Serial Copy Management System ScmsMD Production MD ProductionMD Components MD ComponentsMD consists of the following components Disc DiscAdditional Specifications for U-Matic Tapes Input Components SpecificationsSound Carrier Specifications General System SpecificationsAnalog Tapes Additional Specifications for DAT TapesPQ Encoding DefinitionsPremastering Instructions Premastering InstructionsSound & Noise Information LeitnerAbbreviations for possible noise Abbreviations for possible noiseAdditional TOC Data/ Character Information Additional TOC Data/Character InformationCharacter Information Character InformationLabel Film Label-, Artwork- and Print FilmsLabel Film II. a Artwork Films Booklet BookletII. b Artwork Films Backline Card Backline CardIII. Print Film Cartridge Back-/Spine Print Cartridge Back-/Spine PrintPermitted Uses MiniDisc Logo SpecificationMiniDisc Logo MiniDisc LogoLocation Sony Dadc Austria Sony Dadc CompanyDadc Published Anif, a Produced Haarlem, NL