Title :
On the development of mini disc players
Author :
Ishida, Yoshinobu ; Ishida, Masayuki ; Gotoh, Kenji ; Yoshihara, Tohru ; Nakamura, Keiji ; Nakagawa, Kunihiko ; Kishikawa, Seiji ; Yanabe, Junji
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
A very thin portable MD (mini disc) and a four-disc MD auto changer for cars have been developed. The development of a very small optical pickup and small mechanisms in particular, together with the small MD discs, has helped to dramatically reduce the size of portable MDs and the construct a four-disc MD auto changer system of only 1 DIN size. In the auto changer, by developing a new memory control, four discs can be played continuously. It has been confirmed that vibration characteristics of the MD changer are no longer a practical problem
Keywords :
Hi-Fi equipment; video and audio discs; auto changer system; memory control; mini disc players; optical pickup; vibration characteristics; Audio compression; Audio systems; Consumer electronics; Control systems; Error correction; Optical recording; Optical signal processing; Packaging; Read-write memory; Writing;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on
