"David W. Tamkin" wrote:
> I wouldn't say "danger," just "theoretical possibility." That thread was
> strictly speculation; having been computerless for six days, I was catching
> up with the list last night, so my post to it came later than everyone
> else's. If you just subscribed to this list, John, then my post would be the
> only part of that thread that you saw unless you visited the MD-L archives.
>
Things are looking worse for MD than I thought. A few months ago when I visited
my local Circuit City (my local CC was never big in the MD format to begin with)
they seemed to have the most portable MD units I had seen there (like 3 or four
different models-big deal!).
But today they only had one unit! All of the Sony's were gone. No players.
About 6 or more MP3 players though (along with 32MB storage cards that they were
asking $99 for). With the exception of not being affected by physical vibration
(which I will admit is a big deal, I do not see any advantages to storing music
on tiny, expensive memory chips as opposed to MDs.
I suppose if you made the memory buffer large enough (although this would
increase the cost of an MD recorder) you could eliminate the concern of physical
vibration during MD playback.
But it doesn't look good for in the US at this point. People are so stupid.
Larry
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