Rocknroll Realtor

This information hit me like a ton of bricks, and thank you for the e-mail heads up concerning the possibility of Sony dropping the MD format. A fellow I know, a professional audio voice and project producer who converted to MD from DAT several years ago may not be too concerned since he isn't involved in the Walkman style unit, but I am still in the learning curve with recording as well as playing podcasts through the unit on long bike rides. This really is the ultimate portable audio and now video solution, it is evidently quite entrenched in England and Japan and to some extent worldwide so one does wonder what Sony is thinking. I'm not too worried about stocking up on disks, I don't use it as a destination storage device, rather it is faster and cheaper to burn the files to CD and simply load the MD with what I am taking with me on the bike trail. Enough rambling, the video units look enticing, podcasting is certainly not an exclusive item for the IPod and is on it's way to becoming a major social phenom, I prefer Atrac 3+ anyway, and now that I am getting somewhat comfortable with sonic stage I have no problem converting the material before transferring it to the Walkman. I hope Sony figures out what they have spent so much capital on developing and starts competing head on with Apple. R&RR