On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Simon Barnes wrote:
Hi!
> Simon Mackay wrote about MD2-Data:
>
> > What Sony needs to do is promote the new MD-Data2 650Mb
> > disc as a "B drive"
> > is to market it as a "Zip killer".
Well, I guess it's pretty easy to make a zip/jaz/clik killer in
terms of media price and reliability by simply using MD. It will not only
be far superior to any Iomega device, but even MO devices (here having
equal reliability), since media will be a lot cheaper...
> I'm not sure we will derive ANY benefit from the success of MD2, except
> perhaps an inceased awareness of MD, and it might actually hurt us by making
> our current investment in MD obsolete sooner.
I guess you're seeing it from the wrong (and certainly as Sony
uses to see) point of view: I'll position it so that owners of MD gear can
have such unit as a _complementary_ device, something ala midiman CO2/3
regarding interfaces, but including storage; as those units will have
USB/FireWire ports, if Sony makes them so that they can dump/write
standard music MD, you won't have to buy a souncard with S/PDIF or toslink
for audio transfer, nor a slink/slink-e or IR hack to control it.
The device will be intended to do data manipulation and storage, i.e., you
put a music MD in, connect via your USB/FireWire port to the PC/Mac and be
able to record/dump music digitally at several times normal speed via the
USB port with a minimum of fuss; you can take later that MD with your
preferred portable unit then. I see it as a complementary device to Decks
and portables aimed to computer users...
Sony! are you listening!? ;P
greets,
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