Charles Redell wrote:
las wrote: "like the digital cameras, only for music"
I think we have the tag line for our commercial!
To be like adigital camera, the need a way to record instantly (built
in mike AND a microphone jack.) and a way to preview the picture.
I have sold more than
"Exactly my original point. I am not an audiophile but I do recognize a good and useful
media when I see it. I would not hear the difference on $40 headphones, and
probably
not on $150 headphones either (unless it was pointed out to me)... What I care about,
and what makes MD so attractive
So how can you expect someone to understand the Mini Disc?? Just give them a Rio
with a
fixed memory. They don't want to have to worry about inserting the right card. So
it
sounds like sh!t. (It still sounds a hell of a lot better then those tiny tinny
transistor
radios we used to
At 8/7/00 2:11 AM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
As some one stated before, Sony should come out with a very basic unit.
No editing features
or they should be hidden under a flap labeled "for advanced users only".
They need the equivalent of the simple cassette deck for many
"Wow. I didn't expect this to turn into such a tirade. But here it is. I
congratulate you if you've read this far. Sorry 'bout that. :-}"
So what would you give as the explanation that the MD is so popular in Japan??
The people are more educated about it? I don't think that Sony spent more
At 8/7/00 11:58 AM, las increased the world's knowledge by typing:
So what would you give as the explanation that the MD is so popular in
Japan??
I'm no expert on Japan, so this is only an educated guess. That said,
it's my understanding that Japan is a much more technology oriented
society
I wonder if it's a little too late in this discussion to point out that if a
format fails in the U.S. it doesn't actually mean that it's dead?
Of course, the U.S. is a hugely lucrative market, and any manufacturer is
going to want their product to succeed there, but outside the shadow of the
preaching to the converted I know.
Wow!! This is spooky. I had my e mail window set small so I couldn't see you entire e
mail. I was just about to e mail you stating that you are preaching to the converted
when I got to the end of your e mail.
Sony gave it one last push in this country
| So what would you give as the explanation that the MD is so
popular in Japan??
| The people are more educated about it? I don't think that Sony
spent more time
| and money educating the Japanese (a much smaller market) then
they did the
| Americans.
Another question: exactly how "standard"
I think they would do a lot better if they stopped comming out with all
the new models and tried to market something at a lower price. If the
price for a recorder breaks $100 US they will sell like hot cakes. I
know a heck of a lot of musicians that would spring for one in a minute
except
I sold MD stuff for about a year and a half on and off. I never visited
Japan, but the importer told me that CDs were very expensive in Japan.
I guess that one person buys a CD and makes copies for all of his
friends. Maybe they take turns as to who buys the CD. Can't you see
the argument,
Hi Jim.
"I think they would do a lot better if they stopped coming out with all
the new models and tried to market something at a lower price. If the
price for a recorder breaks $100 US they will sell like hot cakes."
Just how well do hot cakes sell?? I think that McDonalds sells more
As long as credit cards and the internet exist, MD will be a successful
format whichever part of the world you happen to live in.
John
Yes but dot forget that e commerce is only really a few years old. We are luck
to have it.
Larry
las wrote: "like the digital cameras, only for music"
I think we have the tag line for our commercial!
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Charles Redell wrote:
las wrote: "like the digital cameras, only for music"
I think we have the tag line for our commercial!
I'll bet that they have already sold more digital cameras then MD, units
in the US. Now the digital camera isn't cheap. Yet they seem to sell
well and you have
On 06-08-2000 07:15, las wrote:
MD could still be a big thing if a) People were educated. b) They started to
fill music stores with prerecorded MDs that were selling for the price of
cassettes, not CDs. c) They started offering recorders and players at
realistic and competitive prices.
"Philips also had their own video format that failed: V2000. It failed
because they refused to rent porn tapes."
The whole video tape thing might have never gotten anywhere if it were not for
porn. That's a fact. The original tapes that were available for sale/rental were
porn. There's a
las wrote:
I make all of my MDs using digital connections. But when I first got my MZ-1 I had
to wait for the optical cable to come in. So I made some discs in analog. I find
it impossible to tell which are which using headphones. This is not to say that I
don't recommend people use
Good point... I have seen a few bands come through town using drun tracks and
click tracks with little MD players and instructions for sound guys. Way more
convienent than DAT...
c
J. Coon wrote:
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= NB: Over 50% of this
On 4 Aug 2000, at 21:19, las wrote:
From all of the e mails I have read here, it seems that even Best
Buy has thrown in the towel on MD.
They still stock plenty of it in Sacramento, where the Good Guys also
reports selling a lot of it.
Charles Redell wrote:
I hate to say this but I really have to say that I don't think we
are going to
see MD become the cassette of the aughts and tens Sony has very much
abandonded
the concept here and is now marketing it solely to us, those people who
will pay more
for quality
Obviously music is going to be downloaded... whatever format can
downlaod is going to
win. Their insistence on not making MDs easily compatible with MP3s is
the begining
of the death knoll for the MD. Money is being poured into MP3 and its
players here in
the states so that is what
Sony failed to
see the importance of prerecorded media, but consider some of the most
successful media -
When the MD was first introduced, Sony had huge displays for prerecorded MDs.
I remember this huge picture of Michael Jackson and a really complex high
class display. But the store didn't
From all of the e mails I have read here, it seems that even Best Buy has thrown
in the towel on MD. They were at one time one of the stores in the US with the
largest selection of MD stuff.
It seems that MDs Mommy and Daddy (Sony), after being clueless as to how to
market MD in the US, have
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