>From all of the e mails I have read here, it seems that even Best Buy has thrown
in the towel on MD. They were at one time one of the stores in the US with the
largest selection of MD stuff.
It seems that MDs Mommy and Daddy (Sony), after being clueless as to how to
market MD in the US, have abandoned their child in favor of the "Stick". I have
a few suggestions as to what they can do with their stick.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both solid state and the MD. But if
you are buying a portable recording unit to build up a collection of music and
at the same time be able to take it anywhere, I don't see how that is possible
with the stick. Unless you have so much money that it is no object.
With decent quality MDs selling for as low as $1.50 each people out there are
really missing the boat. I keep forgetting to inquire here from one of my
InterSil (formerly RCA Semi Conductor, GE and Harris Corp.) friends what it
would cost a company like Sony for the chip in a stick.
It might be possible that in large quantities it is cheaper to manufacture a
stick then an MD. So Sony will sucker people as long as they can and then drop
the price. But some how I don't think that you can make the type of memory in
the stick or a flash card for less then an MD.
Perhaps someone on the list actually knows (not guessing) about what it costs to
produce this type of memory.
If you use solid state media you can eliminate any circuitry needed for the so
called 'ESP" (the buffer).
Regards,
Larry
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