Re: netmd-dev digest, Vol 1 #280 - 1 msg (discontinue md)

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:35:16PM -0800, Ian Sidle wrote:
> >someone seems to have insider information from a sony engineer
> >(the source does not want to be named) that sony plans to stop
> >producing md devices at the end of 2003
> 
> I find that *hightly* unlikely. Perhaps ending production in *America*. 
> In Japan, MD's are *everywhere*. Compact-Disk's were slow to catch on 
> and then mini-disk's came out and got big. Instead of buying a cd of 
> the latest tunes, you buy an md at the music store. It would be a 
> *very* bad idea for them to drop MD.

Well, in London, Sony used to have a store where you could buy pre-recorded
MDs, but this has recently shut.  Impending doom for the UK MDers?

Pete
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