Looking through both gadgets, i was thinking why Sony would want to encrypt their music..... i mean cant we have a ATRAC converter, and juz drag-drop the files into MD. Well for once, the Hi-MD disc is utillizing the FAT32 technology.... And to think now, they dropped ATRAC .. and prefer MP3... Why not ATRAC with drag-drop capability..... Well, Im quite a noobie here, and i will be willing to have someone to shed their comments on that as well....