> Actually here in Canada things are really picking up as far as MD goes. Any > time I go into a store that sells MD players/recorders, there's at least one > or two people who are there either to seriously look, or to buy. And one by > one, I'm converting people I know to the format. :) Much the same here... you can get MD players in high-street shops, even non-audio places have blank MDs, and I just bought some TDK colour ones at 6 for 5 (that's about $8.38), and I got a 10% student discount. I also just converted my brother... he's been looking at MP3 players for some time, until he realised that MD was just so much more practical, despite the recording time. 50 cheaper for a nice player, cheap media, large expansion capability, good quality. And he's got both a large CD collection and 5GB of MP3s with a broadband connection. To top it all off, out of the students I know in my lecture classes, loads of them have MD players. On an average day I see about 5 MD players, 0 MP3 players, 1 tape player, and 1 CD player. And of course, I use my MD with a tape adapter in my car, along with about 3 out of the 35 cars in my car park. So MD's far from dead... but I believe it would really take off if Sony allowed fast transfer of data, and automatic MP3 conversion. Firewire/USB, external drive functionality - drag and drop anything you wanted. That would make me shell out for another 200 player. My 17.50 (damn sight more rambling than $0.02! :)) -Rich ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
