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BaD_TaStE

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  1. Sony should have seen the writing on the wall in 1998 when Diamond Multimedia introduced the first portable MP3 player the Rio PMP 300 with a whopping 32MB of removable smartmedia memory. Since that innovation there has been a major trend away from removable storage for portable audio playing devices, Minidisc is at a point now because Sony has failed miserably to adapt to market changes and has been simply a bystander instead of a market leader for quite a long period now. The introduction of NetMD and Hi-MD only came about because of the explosion in popularity of MP3 and other compressed audio formats from the 'PC' world into consumer electronics, that cross-over from the realm of nerds in their bedrooms encoding MP3's from 1996 onwards into soccer moms out jogging listening to their tiny MP3 players, that promted Sony to introduce the facility to download audio to MD using a PC in the first place, but of course by then it was too late, the horse had bolted and not even Sony could slam the stable doors shut again. I can remember discussions back in 1999 on the forums at minidisc t-station (now just t-station.net) where MD users were crying out for a download feature to be introduced immediately in new MD recorders, Sony wasn't listening then and isn't listening now, Sonicstage was buggy bloatware from day one all the way up to v3.2, and their draconian DRM efforts only turned more users and potential users off in droves. I will be sorry to see Minidisc go, if it does, but I'm not in the least bit surprised by this speculation. MD is a testament to wonderful Sony engineers, but the marketing executives should be taken out and beheaded if the format is actually axed. My 2 cents.
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