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"Sure, blank media has disappeared from the high street shops" LOOK: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller...p;Q=*&bhs=t

Wow , never knew that there even was blank 8 track. My understandng was that it was a play only format and recording to tape did not happen until cassettes. What is RHW? 50 decks? what 's that about? I just have one and two for backup. now Woof, why do you like MD so much? Finally, can you guys answer this one for me: There also the idea, tell me if I'm wrong, that Sony, who will be around after we all die, MAY supply new affordable media for all machines they make for next 50 years or so, ie, cassette decks, mini discs, Dat recorders etc, not for profit, but just not to piss off their clients who own hundreds of thousands of these machines.

Kino you can get as many as you want, brand new, at $1.50 at J&R music or B&H Photo. now. that is RHW? 50 decks? what 's that about? I just have one and two for backup. now Woof, why do you like MD so much? what guys think of my last thought: There also the idea, tell me if I'm wrong, that Sony, who will be around after we all die, MAY supply new affordable media for all machines they make for next 50 years or so, ie, cassette decks, mini discs, Dat recorders etc, not for profit, but just not to piss off their clients who own hundreds of thousands of these machines.

Excellent post Ral! Where did you get that name, what does it mean? Those disc on ebay, postage may cost more disc. that's issue, I like to get 100 at time. but thanks for reminding me not to be scared of used disc if need be. Where will you be in 20 years? will I still record on MD? who knows. If hard drive space finally becomes silly cheap maybe then I'll finally bail. (it still up to 40¢ Gig) Pawn shops don't work! They have nothing. But Craig's list: that's a great ticket.

Ral, agree with Kino's pessimistic statement. Kino, what mean, need money now, confusing. are you gonna buy ton now? There also the idea, tell me if I'm wrong, that Sony, who will be around after we all die, MAY supply new affordable media for all machines they make for next 50 years or so, ie, cassette decks, mini discs, Dat recorders etc, not for profit, but just not to piss off their clients who own hundreds of thousands of these machines.

Ral, I just went on ebay, I don't see cheap media there. Even there it's $1.50 unit at least which is same as buying new now. And my worries are more in 5-20 years on, if I'm still an MD guy.

Ral: thanks for the optimistic outlook.

What do you guys think? We will wake up one day and MD media will be gone or exoribitant? Or will it be like cassette tapes and dat and be available and moderately priced for decades to come? What do you all think?

great info Barock, curious, now, you guys are in my boat I guess. I got my first home deck in 1998. I have ipod etc, but still love MD for home recording. What is future of minidisc, home deck, MD media? I'm 45 and plan on using this medium till I'm 100. So I'm buying few used decks and new decks to be safe -- worry bit about media though.

Thanks Guitar: Just checked, nothing about Rec anything in menu.

NO just edit, delete the track, and then record, its just more work, what happened to the feature??

What happened to record over exisiting track? that was not an insignificant thing.

Guitar: I don't follow you. Anytime you hit record you are recording from the end anyway. If you have five tracks and hit record you are now recoding from the end to a 6th track. But this was a nice feature to record over the pre-existing track? It's history?

New strange thing: ON this new unit, I have track 1 on pause and I hit record, to record over it, but instead of recording over the track nothing happens. I tried the remote and the unit. Could it be possible there is no 'record over exisiting track" ?? thanks.

Excellent Rich you nailed it. thanks