I barely use my Net-MD portable player these days, except for transfering music to disk for listeing to in my van ( I have a Sony MD/Radio unit). After serious problems with various versions of Sonic Stage (no surprise there, but most of it was down to a codec pack) I had become somewhat disillusioned with the whole process, but now I have 1.5 working again it's all sunny and to be honest I care not for further development of this format. What I have works fine and as long as the blank media is available then I'm sorted. Given the explosion in solid state media and the ipod in particular, this development was to be expected. MD will likely go the way of the laserdisc, incredible technology at it's inception, but quick to be outdone. I like what I've got and I'll continue to use it until it breaks and needs to be replaced.