Matt White wrote:
>
> Huh? Companies already spend far more on MiniDisc than they do on
> MP3. There really isn't all that much MP3 stuff out there,
> yet. Meanwhile Sony and Sharp and friends seem to keep pumping out new MD
> units of varying types.
You must live in a metropolitan area!
Where I live, we only have two big electronics stores that EVERYONE
shops at for electronics: Best Buy and Circuit City. In both places,
sadly, MD has come and gone.
Best Buy had MD a long time ago, since it came out. I remember seeing
the cool MDS-501 there back in the early 90's. However, they only ever
had 1 or 2 units. They DID however, have a prerecorded MD stand, which
went away sometime in '94 or so. Then in 1998, I started getting
excited because the MDS-JE520/JE320/R30/R50, several minisystems, and a
whole slew of portables showed up. MD got its own aisle, and the
prerecorded MDs came back, a whole ton of MD blanks from different
companies were offered, and MD got its own endcap with a caveman video.
Today, there is the JE330 and the one with the CD/MD combo deck, MZ-R70,
Sharp MD-MT15, a couple play-only portables, and a few blanks. The rest
of the aisle is filled with at least 4 or 5 different audio
CD-recorders, and there are at least 5 MP3 players where MD players used
to be. The endcap is still there, but I didn't look to see if they
changed it to advertise CD recorders or not. It looks much less
exciting for MD at Best Buy now, and I find it a little disappointing.
As for Circuit City, I HEARD that other cities actually had Aiwa and
Sony portables. None ever showed up at the local one here. Circuit
City had the MDS-JB920 for a little while in 1998, but now they don't
have MD equipment at all. They do, however, have CD recorders.
It's nice to see the price of MD blanks has dropped over the years, but
it looks like retailer interest has dropped as well, at least here,
where I think I am a lone MD user.
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