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I believe this (possible) decision is not about MD. It's about politics and money. Currently there are 2 formats under fire: MD and mini-DV. Both formats have one thing in common, they are the best solution for consumers and offer near professional results. They also lack something: DRM ( leaving out the MD-copybit as it is to easy to crack to call it a form of DRM ... ) -On the technical side it's hard to improve on both atrac and dv without losing quality. No new development means no new money. So push mpeg and there's a whole new market! -If you can't beat the p2p guys, fight back with equipment that does not allow downloaded content. Let's face it: after the introduction of the walkman and the first (data!) MD and DAT, Sony has never regained it's leading position on the market due to it's DRM-policy. Sony has been slowly dying for over twenty years. It's not MD that's dying, it's Sony!

Never mind. Bought the NX90 new for € 39 including disks so still a great deal and better sound than the average MP3 player.

tnx LV So I wrongly assumed to transfer CD's in high speed to MD, like the box promised. Why is it that sony always cripples there excellent hardware?

After using standerd MD's for a long time I bought a NetMD ( NX90 ) believing I could also use this to quickly make normal MD's. After the usual annoyance with sonicstage I stumbled on this: When I want to transfer songs to MD using 'Stereo' ( ATRAC1 ) Sonic stage still converts the songs to ATRAC3 LP2. When I check out the LP2 to my NetMD the song is transferred to ATRAC1 on my MD. In my opinion this means that the lower quality ATRAC3 LP2 is converted back to high quality ATRAC1. But than the real quality would still be ATRAC3. So is the NetMD/sonicstage combination not capable of producing real ATRAC1 MD's? Or am I missing something here?