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There is nothing wrong with MD, nor MP3, IMO. What's gonna change is the good old CD.
Take a look at the market, we now have MD recorder, MP3 recorder, and even CD
recorder, these allows us to make comparable or even exact copies of the original.
Look at the number of solid states player, it pump up in the past year, one can blame
the cheap memory price. But even big company like Sony, Panasonic join the battle of
solid state players, Philips is going to release a mini-CD MP3 player, don't they have
portable CD/MD players, won't they be competiting with their own?! On the other hand,
labels are putting copy protection in the good old CD, which intents to stop peoples
from ripping the CD on their PCs. Try to search "copy protected cd" in yahoo and see
how many hits..
My theory is that hardware manufacturers got new Hi-Res formats, how are they going to
complete with another good old format exists 2 decades. The best solution is to kill
it.. A big move is to make every single PC in the world equipped with a CDROM/DVDROM
capable of ripping the track out, do it whatever the user like.. this may post a big
thread to the record labels, they may eventually move to the new formats which are
copy protected, hard to break in our average technologies.. which may lead to boost to
the sales of the new hardwares..
Just my 2 cents..
>
>Hello List,
>
>I used to read one opinion after another, more and more often about the
>dying MD format. And I was shivering as one who killed a lot of money in
>several portables and decks...
>I've found nowadays an article in a local Playboy ;-) (I live in Romania,
>East Europe) dealing about the new and veeeeeeeeery expensive Mercedes -
>Benz Maybach. It seems Maybach will become a stand alone premium product
>brand but this is another story...
>The fanciest car I ever saw features a V12 engine, transparent roof, onboard
>bar, tv, radio, cd player and ...hm, hm, a md player...
>So I was thinking to myself, if MD is dying that means nobody will
>produce&sell it anymore. So I could sell my old and "useless" MD stuff to
>those crazy german engineers to be refurbished and accomodated in the new
>Mercedes...
>my two cents,
>
>:-) AdWiser
>
>P.S. - Who wants to build a new BMW? I have also a really useless Nomad 2
>from Creative...
>
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