Francisco Jose Montilla wrote:
> 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...
Bear in mind:
(a) MD-data blanks still cost around 4x audio blanks
(b) MD-data was (is?) slow, MD-audio can probably manage ~ 2MBit/s, to
compete you need at LEAST 8MBit/s.
(c) There is a resistance to multiple media standards. No one wants to end
up with their data on an obsolete medium (8"floppy,5"floppy,A.N.Other tape
&c.). Given that there is already a mini-DVD format (I think), who's going
to swallow ANOTHER similar sized incompatible format ?
CD has been a hit, and I don't think it will go away any time soon. DVD
looks like son-of-CD, but is still in it's querulous infancy viz: DVD-RW,
DVD+RW etc. But DVD discs are too big to be portable. I'd like to see a 3"
(pocket-sized) rewritable format, and something that can read old MD's would
be great (like DVD drives reading CDs). But I think we may be left behind
because MD never had enough penetration to be noticed.
simon
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