Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-08 Thread Daryl O.
<< 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. [...] It looks much less exciting for MD at Best Buy now, and I find it a little disappointing. >> (Shawn Lin) I just set that planogram last week, and

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-06 Thread JR Moore
On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 08:39:09 -0400 "J. Coon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Shawn R. Lin" wrote: > > > > 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. > > I haven't been in the local

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-06 Thread Matt Wall
Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light! > > Matt Wall wrote: > > I stopped going to circuit city when they decided to be evil and intorduce > > Divx. sorry for the rant. > > As I recall, they had to buy back all the units they sold when they > discontinued the format

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-06 Thread J. Coon
Matt Wall wrote: > I stopped going to circuit city when they decided to be evil and intorduce > Divx. sorry for the rant. As I recall, they had to buy back all the units they sold when they discontinued the format. I think they lost a lot of money on that and I doubt they will try it again.

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-05 Thread Matt Wall
decided to be evil and intorduce Divx. sorry for the rant. - Original Message - From: J. Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:39 AM Subject: Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light! > > "Shawn R. Lin" wrote: > >

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-05 Thread J. Coon
"Shawn R. Lin" wrote: > > 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. I haven't been in the local Circuit City since before xmass, but the last time I looked, they had simply moved the MD equ

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-04 Thread Shawn R. Lin
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! Whe

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Ralph Smeets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > this can be a good thing or bad thing. > true, more of the quote "little ones" will have discovered the minidisc, but > the price on minidisc will probably go up due to the popular demand. Huh... I've got into minidisc about 2.5 years ago! Then it was still quite ex

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Leon
Of course large companies can be very dumb... but if they really understand this market supply/demand thing, I don't think they'll want to raise the prices. I'd forgotten what it's called, but in marketing, there's one strategy in which you keep the prices up until the demand really drops signif

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Matt Wall
ium is getting more popular, and i'm sure that prices will drop. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:32 AM Subject: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light! > > this can be a good thing or bad thing. &

Re: MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Matt White
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this can be a good thing or bad thing. > true, more of the quote "little ones" will have discovered the minidisc, but > the price on minidisc will probably go up due to the popular demand. No, prices would go down due to economy of scale. Prices

MD: Subject: Sony has seen the light!

2000-04-03 Thread Stubie56
this can be a good thing or bad thing. true, more of the quote "little ones" will have discovered the minidisc, but the price on minidisc will probably go up due to the popular demand. i also dont think other companies are going to spend as much money on minidisc technology than on mp3. ultima