I'm using minidisc since 1995 (MZR2; MDS-je530; MZR700; MZE500; Kenwood D401) as you can see the last three units support MD/LP; however my home deck is still one without MD/LP, why? because Sony has never put on the market a MDLP deck with comparable features as MDS-je530 at a reasonable price (most CD players have coax digital output, cheapest MD-LP deck with coax digital in costs about €400...) So if Sony cannot offer a HiMD quality deck on the market for less than €250 only limited cusyomer will buy it... Car decks: my kenwood costed about €600 for the MD player (3 MD changer; it is connected to the Kenwood car tuner via the CD-changer port So I will not replace it because sony does not offer products that are compatible with Kenwood cd changer port; it will probably be to expensive, I do not have a 'recorder' to benefit HiMD