Heh... I know it.. I think that sony wanna stops hi-md cos' most of hi-md players are crap... Yeah, I know it's hard to say, but that's true! Look at some old MD models, they are great! Good sound, no voulme limiter, and small capacity of md..!! small capacity means more md to buy to store more music, so the md-disc producents had more $$ also FLAsh memory... yeah, flash is that knife in back himds why? flash is lite, handy, and has got more space to store music, films etc. And fu**ing hdd memory:/ lot of store... good sound, and high volume, long life battery Bless God himd.. respect