The digital rights management for MD has become ridiculous.As afr as i know they dont even make models that can record audio without a computer anymore. Im fed up with my MD player, and getting an Ipod mini (free with my iBook). Ipods can be dropped and still work MD USED TO BE great but today... wellsony you were doin fine until you 1. atopped advertizing MD, 2. dont make it clear that MD is an MP3 PLAYER and not some weird recorder only geeks know how to use and 3... ur digital rights management is INSANE and i do NOT want to use your mp3 player. sorry sony. your software sucks, love ur hardware thogh. Dont u guys get me wrong i LOVE sony products, TV's, Playstation, (their audio equipment is pretty bad though) LCD's CRT's, but as for MD... i left mine in the hot car a few trimes and now my buttons dont work. i hafta use a remote. Dropped it once and now songas record with "blank spots" in them, and if somthing else was on the disc, instyead of a blank spot, ill get the original song from the disc for the duraton that my MD devicer didnt record. Even an iPod with a HRD DISK inside is more durable than that. And apple doesnt acre for digtal rights management as much as sony. No not by a longshot. I know u wont find this a popular post. sorry fot that but if MD disapeers i must ask what areb we really losing? Not much says me. I bought an MD because i wanted SMALL device than can hold a LOTof music. At the time i bought one there were no devices as small as MDplayers that heald mroe than an MD disc. So i got a small MD player with the idea that i can CHANGE discs and still have a small device and play infinite music. Then i realized how bulky the discs are and that and tosday id be better off with an iPod nano/mini/shuffle OR even a sony digital walkman mp3 device. Oh and making me convert to openmg format is insane. Sony, if your reading this (andf im sure ur not) you are RIDICULOUS for wanting me to double the size of my music folder. Imagine all tghe non tech savvy idiots who did that and dont even know ehere the open MG files get stored. ridiculous.
