We've had a little bit of a similar discussion, in weeks past. <G>
However...
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Aparently, there is yet another portable music player,
> Iomega's ZIP, just in time for the Christmas buying season.
> I've seen more TV ads for it in the past few days than I've
> seen for minidisc in *years*. The ad points out the high
> cost of solid state media, although the ZIP media is still
> much more expensive than minidisc! Clearly, the ZIP players
> are the *least* technologically sophisticated, however, the
> ads protray them as *sexy*.
I've been asked about them, actually...and I pointed people at MD,
instead, citing the less expensive media costs, etc.
> I was just at Best Buy (Oxford Valley PA near Philadelphia)
> this evening. I really had to look hard to find their
> minidisc equipment; it was buried under an avalanche of
> Philips and RCA audio CD recorders. To their credit, they
> did have a couple JE440's in boxes, but none on display.
> They had an MZ-R70 and MXD-D5C on display. The MD/CDR audio
> equpiment was next to a bunch of bookshelf systems playing
> (rather loudly) a commercial radio station with really bad
> audio quality. This same store had a whole aisle of MP3
> players with an MP3 information kiosk display at the end of
> the aisle. I guess marketing's perception is the MP3 is
> *sexy* and MD is not.
I live around the corner from the store you mention. While their
selection has never been "great", they usually have 2 - 4 of the portable
units on display, too...one or two Sony units, the Sharp MD-MT15, and one
by a company...Audio something or other. They're usually out in their
own display, though, not buried under anything.
> So far as blank media, they had lots of CDR and CDR audio (a
> whole aisle plus some advertised specials in racks sitting
> in the middle of the floor), but virtually no MD, blank or
> pre-recorded.
This is true...I've never seen either blank or recorded MDs in that
store, and I've been looking since I got 8my* MT15 in the spring.
FWIW, the Circuit City around the corner from this BB, just off the
corner of Oxford Valley Road and Business 1, has a few portables, at
least 2 decks, and might have some boombox units, too. They also sell
blanks, and I TOSlink cables, as well. The only thing I don't think they
carry are pre-recorded MDs.
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