[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> .........I (as usual) blame Sony.......they invented the format and hogged it
> to themselves
> for too long and didn't push it nearly enough in the US and I thought the ads
> they had were obscure and ridiculous........well anyway.......only cool people
> are into MD.... a lot of theater groups here in the northeast use only
> MD.......they say it is perfect for live theater........okay......I've said
> enough........
>
Sony is to blame. But not because they hogged the format. There were other
manufactures that offered MD recorders in the US early on.
Sony made several huge marketing mistakes. Also, they introduced the format
prematurely because, as some else stated the other day, Phillips was coming out
with the DCC and Sony feared that it might catch on before they ever had a
chance to release the MD (even though ATRAC still needed some work).
At the time that Sony released the MD in the US, the CD had finally gained
acceptance. CDs did not start walking off of shelves when they were first
introduced. It took a real long time for them to catch on. But people had
finally started buying them and often making cassette copies.
Early MD posters and displays seemed to really push their prerecorded MDs. Don't
forget Sony suddenly found itself in the "record and movie" business after years
of fighting in the courts to allow home taping.
The introductory pricing of both their hardware and blanks was way too high.
This is typical of a new format (with the possible exception of the DVD which,
although prices have dropped, was still not totally ridiculous when first
released).
But Sony forgot about dropping the prices. They actually had a time line as to
when they expected to drop the prices of MD. But it was a question of too long
and too little too late.
The debate over whether CDs do sound better than Md copies is moot. As you
stated MDs should be thought of as a replacement for the cassette (but were not
marketed that way by Sony-a big mistake).
If you are at home and have very high end equipment, you don't really need the
portability and durability of the MD. But as soon as you step out of your house,
that's a different thing.
The MD is a portable, durable (and now fairly reasonable) medium that you can
carry around with you. It takes up very little space. Is self contained and
therefore not subject to the special handling that a CD requires.
It offers all of the conveniences of a CD with sound quality that is almost
(maybe just as good as) a CD (I'm not going to get into that again). But without
question is so far advanced in convenience, audio fidelity and features that you
really can't even think of the cassette when you are talking about the MD.
But hear i am preaching to the converted.
Larry
>
> Tom
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