Hi all.
I just thought about something. If MDs had come out BEFORE CDs, I wonder if
CDs would have caught on as well?
What advantages does the CD have over an MD. If any, the only argument can
be that it does not use as much compression (any with a limited background in
recording will tell you that all recorded music has some compression in it).
The fact that HDCDs and such don't seem to be catching on tells me that it is
NOT improved sound quality that makes people choose the CD over the MD. OK,
this is a 180 degree of my prior thinking.
The MD should have been conceived with the possibility of a future MD ROM,
rather than incompatible and very slow Data MDs. They should have also made
the data storage capabilities of the MD greater. Even if they had to make
them 2 sided the way floppy discs are.
Nah!! 140 MB is still more than a ZIP drive. The fact that Iomega is still
in business after all of the defective products they threw at the public
amazes me. They lost a class action suit big time over none readable Ditto
tape drives (I think that there were Zips involved too).
I don't think that enough of the public made them give their money back. I
have a drive and a bunch of tapes sitting around that I never bothered to get
my money back for.
The public seems to find video quality more important (or noticeable) than
audio. Look at the way DVDs caught on and are overtaking VHS (don't give me
the, "then why didn't Beta make it over VHS because Beta had a better
picture"? First off I never found that to be factual and I owned both.
Second, the video quality was relative to the tape speed and Beta just ddi
not have enough tape on it to run fast enough to offer a better picture than
VHS).
Convenience and familiarity most be factors with DVD too. People just feel
comfortable with CDs. I don't understand it. You'd think that when they
introduced DVDs they would have had them in a protective shell (but they
wanted the players to be compatible with CDs and CD ROMs).
MD has IMHO already peaked in the US (not much of a peak at that) and will be
around for a long time (thanks to the internet and international means of
obtaining MD from Japan I guess Sony feels that there is still enough of a
market to offer a limited number of models in the US and introduce some of
the newer technologies (like LPMD).
I place a large part of the blame on Sony and greed. Then never promoted MD
correctly and did not drop the prices to acceptable levels in the US. They
also needed to make simpler, more user friendly models for the general
public.
I don't believe that the majority of the public could give a damn about
titling and find the editing capabilities of MD beyond their needs. They
should make "idiot" models at a very low price that allow you to record and
record over, just like a cassette.
Move, delete single track delete, delete all, etc. are just too much for a
public where their VCRs blink 12:00...12:00....12:00.... all of the time.
The fact that so many people own computers (yes Shawn, even old people like
me) and can surf the net and load programs is beyond my understanding.
I think it just shows that if you really want to use something and feel the
need to use it you will take the time to learn how to do so.
Larry
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