I have seen the Dataplay discs and they are pretty well thought out.
My biggest complaint being that they are industry friendly, not consumer
friendly.
As for why MD was never pushed that way....That's Sony for you.
On the technical side. MD can be written to at a present max of 2x in
CDR terms (300kbps) but that is the raw figure. When you take into
consideration
the compression of the input data (audio) it has a subjective speed of
upto 8x. The current system heads only support 1x raw/4x subjective.
That is becuase MD is optimagnetic-rewritable (because it is
magnetically written [modulated] actually). So the Mavica was designed
to use CDR becuase CDR can easily record at 8x raw speed.
Hope This Helps,
RJ Kirkland
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