Re: MD: Best buy, phasing out MD equip ??

[las]

Don Capps wrote:

> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I was always under the impression that MD was brought out to rpelace the
> Tape and not the CD.
>
> That's correct. It was.
>

Actually that is not the way that Mini Discs were marketed by Sony when they
were introduced in the US.  They were being pushed as a replacement for the CD
which after years of resistance had finally gained acceptance.

Sony had huge displays in stores with prerecorded MDs being pushed.  Big
pictures of Michael Jackson (but very little product actually available.

Larry


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