original research date August 2008 Unreferenced date November 2007 The Sony HiFD Hi gh capacity F loppy D isk was an attempt by Sony to replace their own aging 3.5 inch floppy disk , which had proven successful in the late 1980s war to replace the 5.25 inch floppy disk. Image with unknown copyright status removed Image Sony hifd pcmag advert.jpg thumb right Sony HiFD magazine advertisement from the March 23, 1999 issue of PC Magazine The first HiFD was launched in late 1998, boasting a capacity of 150MB and backwards compatibility with 3.5 inch floppy disks. It was available in Parallel port and Advanced Technology Attachment ATA versions with a SCSI version planned, but never launched. Its immediate competitors were the popular Iomega Zip drive , which had a capacity of 100MB and Imation s Laser Servo LS 120 SuperDisk , which had a capacity of 120MB and unlike the Zip disk was also backwards compatible with 720KB Double Density and 1400KB High Density 3.5 inch floppy disks not with 2880KB Extra Density disks, though . In spite of Iomega s healthy market lead, many observers confidently predicted that the HiFD would swiftly take over the market, and ultimately replace the floppy drive. This did not happen, however. A few months after launch it emerged that the HiFD suffered from frequent crashes during read write operations, and had a tendency of having its read rate drop into the low kilobyte per second range, effectively rendering it unusable. Initially it was thought that a new ... year. The HiFD was re released in November 1999, now sporting a 200MB capacity and using ... much of an issue, but didn t help improve market perception . The whole affair gave the HiFD ... RW drives were entering the mainstream. These factors doomed the second HiFD to failure. Many people compared the HiFD to Sony s Betamax videotape format. However, while the failure of Betamax is often blamed on poor management, it is generally thought that HiFD would ultimately have failed no matter ... more details
Summary Scan of a two page advertisement by Sony in the March 23, 1999 issue of PC Magazine Volume 18, Number 6 . Licensing PD US Orphan image ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2007 Orphan date February 2009 A list of formats produced by Sony . Notable Formats Compact Disc 1982 Floppy disk New 3.0 3.5.22 formats 3.5 inch Floppy disk 1982 Betacam Betacam SP Betacam SP 1986 Betacam Digital Betacam Digital Betacam 1993 Betacam Betacam SX Betacam SX 1996 DV DVCAM DVCAM 1996 HDCAM 1997 Memory Stick 1998 Digital8 1999 MicroMV 2001 HDCAM HDCAM SR HDCAM SR 2003 XDCAM 2003 Universal Media Disc 2004 Blu ray Disc 2006 Limited Support, or Obsolete U matic 1971 BetaMax 1975 Elcaset 1976 Betacam 1982 Digital Audio Stationary Head DASH 1982 8 mm video format Video8 1985 D1 Sony D1 1986 Digital Audio Tape DAT 1987 8 mm video format Hi8 Hi8 1987 S VHS S VHS vs ED Beta ED BetaMax 1988 MiniDisc 1991 Sony Dynamic Digital Sound 1993 ATRAC 1999 HiFD 1998 Super Audio CD 1999 Hi MD 2004 DEFAULTSORT Sony Formats Category Sony Technology stub ... more details
. Sony HiFD Sony introduced its own floptical like system in 1997 as the 150 MB Sony HiFD which ... garnered some market penetration, industry observers nevertheless confidently predicted the HiFD ... more details
right 120 MB LS 240 3 inch align center 1997 align right 240.75 MB align right 240 MB 3 inch HiFD ... Servo nowrap 1 HiFD High capacity Floppy Disk nowrap 1 SS Single Sided nowrap 1 DS Double Sided ... more details
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