Martin Schiff wrote:
>
> I disagree that MP3 is direct competition for minidisc. I think that MP3 is
> competition for portable CDs. Minidisc is competition for tape cassettes.
> The marketing of minidiscs needs to stress that these are a recording medium
> and that with portables you can record anything that you might previously
> have recorded on tape, but with much higher quality.
Tape cassettes are virtually dead any more. Most of my younger friends
don't have a single tape playing device. The market is very narrow if
MD is ONLY competing with cassettes. A niche product is not going to
gain wide acceptance if it's marketed to replace a product that is
already nearing the end of its natural life span. At Hastings and Best
Buy, I'm not even sure prerecorded cassettes are available any more.
Sony/Sharp and other companies are going to need to make MD look like a
more attractive audio storage media than CD-R, solid-state memory, and
hard disk storage, as those right now are gaining in popularity. What's
boosting their popularity, is MP3. MP3 could help boost MD's popularity
too, with better integration than we have now.
Sound quality has very little to do with whether a media survives or
not. Convenience, price, and availability are the big issues.
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