Pat Farrell wrote: > Peter wrote: > >> Nah, they should've made PC mini disk drives from day one. Being able to >> play/read, write/record and copy on a PC would've been a huge thing back >> then. Now, they were left behind by the CD which - eventually - did >> allow that. Too afraid of 'piracy', of course.... >> > > You are talking about Sony. They own (owned) a major record label. > Afraid of piracy is too weak a phrase. > > Of course, Sony has always been a bit schizophrenic. Part of them sells > to studios and wants to be able to record bit perfect. >
Absolutely, Philips owned a major record label too (Polygram, continued from the other thread), but they had the sense to drop it in the late nineties. > Mini-disk was actually cool, but Sony made it brain dead > They did, reminds me of Apple a bit... Regards, Peter' _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
