greetings! i can say that i never purchased an MD recorder for one main reason - Sony did not allow for faster than real time copying to your computer until the newer format came out - was it HiMD? i mean, who wants to record to a digital format only to have to re-record it to your computer at REAL TIME? the notion is completely absurd! and even then, i found ambiguity as to whether or not these would mount in Mac OS X, therefore it was not even an option for me. perhaps these issues were finally addressed, but without this, i would have never considered this format. if Sony had been "on the ball" they could have driven the MD format to be EXTREMEMLY popular in the semi-pro audio market, as i still have found NOTHING else that would fit my needs. i wonder why NO company seems to be attempting to fill this need??? the iPod on the other hand has been working multi-platform from the onset. my main gripe with it is no semi-professional recording option (even at this time to my knowledge). if anyone here knows of a multi-platform savvy, portable, non-linear semi-pro digital recording solution, please let me know... thanks! 8-) bbc@infinitygames.com
