HiMD Recording Capacities
This page lists recording capacities for discs recorded in various HiMD modes. This information is sourced from the manual to the MZ-RH1, but should be similar for all Hi-MD recorders
Except for Linear PCM, these times are largely rounded to the closest ten minutes. Exact total available run-time could vary slightly between computer transfers and optical dubs. All HiMD machines support LPCM and all ATRAC3 modes but not all machines support MP3. Other MP3 bit-rates exist but Sony only showed this one rate.
| HiMD 1Gig | MD80 | MD 74 | MD 60 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formatted Data Storage | 964 MB | 291 MB | 270 MB | 219 MB |
| Linear PCM | 94 minutes | 28 minutes | 26 minutes | 21 minutes |
| ATRAC3plus 352-kilobits | 5 hours 50 minutes | 1 hour 35 minutes | 1 hour 30 minutes | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| ATRAC3plus 256-kilobits (“Hi-SP”) | 7 hours 55 minutes | 2 hours 20 minutes | 2 hours 10 minutes | 1 hour 40 minutes |
| ATRAC3plus 192-kilobits | 11 hours | 3 hours 10 minutes | 3 hours | 2 hours 20 minutes |
| ATRAC3plus 64-kilobits | 34 hours | 10 hours 10 minutes | 9 hours 20 minutes | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| ATRAC3plus 48-kilobits | 45 hours | 13 hours 30 minutes | 12 hours 30 minutes | 10 hours |
| ATRAC3 132-kilobits (“LP2”) | 16 hours 30 minutes | 4 hours 50 minutes | 4 hours 30 minutes | 3 hours 40 minutes |
| ATRAC3 105-kilobits | 20 hours 40 minutes | 6 hours 10 minutes | 5 hours 50 minutes | 4 hours 40 minutes |
| ATRAC3 66-kilobits (“LP4”) | 32 hours 40 minutes | 9 hours 50 minutes | 9 hours | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| MP3 128-kilobits | 17 hours | 5 hours | 4 hours 30 minutes | 3 hours 30 minutes |