>From what I observed Sony had changed the way it market MD in the past 2 years.
When I first saw MD about 10 years ago, it advertised as Compact, Digital Audio, Near
CD sound quality, and most important, Recordable/Editable. As that time Sony is
targetting the audio tape, so that make sense for all that claims. And MD does a good
job and take over most of the market from audio tape.
But what happened in recent years is the new MP3 format which started with a software
only implementation and later got hardware implemented, plus the advancement of memory
technology which end up a price drop. So a MP3 player make sense and most computer
users can easily produce/collect their own MP3 collections.
So we now see Sony kindly offer us USB connection and MDLP which extended the fantasy
of MD. I guess that's toward the Computer users rather than the audio market.
And last, personally I prefer MD. It's easy to record, I just snap in a CD and a MD
then press several buttons. For MP3, I need to go through all those softwares and have
to spare my computer. And for the long run, MD should be cheaper.
Just my 2 cents.
Raymond
How can the folks at Sony be so thick-headed?
>
>The Fall 2000 issue of Sony Style magazine advises us to connect the USB
>PCLink to our computers to "record mixes to your MD recorder with almost no
>loss in sound quality."
>
>To further reinforce their contention that MD doesn't sound as good as it
>could, they go on to advertise their MDW-80D premium discs as being
>constructed in a way that "reduces vibrations during disc rotation to
>produce even better sound."
>
>While MP3 advocates crow about their "near CD sound quality," Sony seems to
>want to warn people that Minidisc doesn't really sound that good.
>
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