mark_k

Too bad. The HD MD idea was swept away by poor market response and MD seems to be the number one division to be cut under Sony's new policy. Poor Sony they still do not know how serious the mistake was not to offer high capacity media, reliable, bug-free and royal free software. They do not even look into the possibility an optical disc like MD can be as large as 10Gg, if blue ray laser is to be used and they release and combine the stupid separation of MD audio and MD data

As a long time MD follower, I have been quite disppointed about Sony's decision though which was expected. The reason for the failure of MD is simpy to simple that MD is NOT an open format. Too much concern is involved in the copy right protection issue. I just don't know why I have to spend hours in porting music into my MD disc via a computer thru the bug loaded Sonic Stage while I can finish it in seconds using my IRiver or iPod. Why Sony has to rely on a dying technology while Sony can push the HiMD using blue laser and open the SonicStage to the public, rivals the survival, if not iPod, but other MP3 players. The history jsut repeats itself.