> Donald Person wrote...
> Well everyone -- I think we're fighting a losing battle. While I
>personally love MD, I think it's dying out here in the US. The
>manufacturers didn't do enough in the advertising department to
>begin with, and now many manufacturers are pulling out of MD all
>together! Can you believe blank cassettes STILL out-sell MD's and
>even CD-R's ??? Don't these people realize that MD is the ONLY
>replacement for cassette because of the ease-of-use and
>re-recordability?? (But all of us know that already.)
Well, I have to say that my own anecdotal evidence from the UK is
rather different. In the UK, the minidisc scene seems to have
exploded in the last year. I see almost as many people with personal
minidisc units as cassette walkmans now. Everyone seems to be buying
them. Additionally, if you go into any branch of Dixons (the dominant
high street electronics retailer in the UK) its difficult to find a
hi-fi system *without* an integrated minidisc. And in contrast to the
US, I've only ever *seen* ONE person actually using a personal MP3
player, and I certainly don't know anyone who owns one.
Can anyone else back me up on this (perhaps with some industry
figures?)
That said, I think in the long term, Minidisc is doomed. As soon
as someone comes up with a personal MP3 player with integrated
IBM Microdrive, I think MP3 will have found its 'killer
player'. Afterall, it'll be *tiny* with massive capacity. In fact,
does anyone know this hasn't happened already? (And please nobody
point out that you *can* slot a Microdrive into some PDAs, and then
use it to play MP3s. Thats clearly not what I meant)
Robin.
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