Hi everyone, I've come to this forum from time to time but I don't think I've ever posted here before. I have been a Minidisc enthusiast since I got my first unit in 1996. The format just suited all of my needs. Of course it could have ben a LOT better if Sony had opened the format up and given people what they wanted -- good software and no silly DRM limitations. I've seen the format through its boom years and now the present. Heck, back in 1996-1998 Minidisc owned the portable music world. You probably couldn't buy anything else if you wanted to. Every company out there was falling all over itself to produce hardware for it. Thiose were the times that Sony should have been giving people the things they wanted -- native MP3 support, a recorder that fits into a computer drive bay (instead of trying to force people to use "MD-Data"), and good software. Instead, Sony blew it big time. I really don't want to see this format die. But ranting about it on this board isn't going to save Minidisc. It really worries me to see the administrator of this forum tell everyone to just sit back and wait for Sony's final decision. Is that really all we can do? What we need is some kind of petition or write-in campaign. We need someone to get us the RIGHT person within Sony that we should direct our enquiries to. Heck , it's worth a few bucks to me personally even if I have to make a phone call to Japan to do it! I really don't want to lose MD! Can't someone find us the right contact so we could start getting organized? Remember, this worked once before! That's how we got rid of End Search! We should at least try to do it again, rather than just sitting around watching the format die!
