batfastad Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Don't do this to me!! :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shigzeo Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 i have to say i was almost excited. most likely will buy the new machine next year or so for my recordings as then i would not have to borrow my friend's pc to upload... say why cannot sony make compatible firmware for all their machines. hate to drag the poor iPod through this crowd, but every single firmware update adds new compatibility and or features for nearly every iPod, though the oldest is now working on 5 years. sony of course has abandoned every single recorder from before well who knows, but they don't care enough to hope that customers will still use their machines after a few years. in order to add a new feature, forget software updates, open your wallets. if it were dropped, perhaps they could figure out how to coddle up a new machine that was drag-and-drop compatible, friendly with other formats and not sheered with infighting. oh well, it is an april fool's joke. baka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ral-Clan Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 (edited) Although this caught me, I'm not sure it was such a good April Fool's joke as it is so close to reality.And more importantly: New users, hearing about the MZ-RH1, and who are considering their first Minidisc machine, are now visiting this site for info. Just by casually scanning the headlines on the main page they will see this fake news item and will not realise it is an April Fools joke....so might decide not to go with Minidisc after all. Even worse, thinking this is serious, they might start spreading this false news about the termination of Minidisc around.Furthermore, the date of the news item isn't even April 1st. It's March 31st....which will further confound people who don't celebrate this tradition - they won't realise it's a "trick".This news item really needs a prominent "APRIL FOOLS" label posted on it. Edited April 3, 2006 by Ral-Clan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 It wasn't when I posted that! lolLol ,April Fool was over looong time agao as i`m from India ..LOL Clock is just faster here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agafly Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 Is it not time this 'side-splitting' joke was pulled? When searching for 'Sony RH1', Google finds the link. This can not be doing anyone any good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATELETRONICS Posted April 3, 2006 Report Share Posted April 3, 2006 i agree label the damn thing a joke now before everyone things its real. that will not help the format survive!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfastad Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 YepThis should be labelled joke, or at least removed from the RSS / news at the front of the site.My RSS reader keeps throwing this up at me and it's freaking me out every time I see it!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropy Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 New users, hearing about the MZ-RH1, and who are considering their first Minidisc machine, are now visiting this site for info. Just by casually scanning the headlines on the main page they will see this fake news item and will not realise it is an April Fools joke....so might decide not to go with Minidisc after all.That's a really good point.I'm very happy that this year, April 1 fell on a day where most web sites are idle, so that we weren't flooded with stupid and possibly dangerous fake news items. If they were universally funny, I'd mind less, but only NPR manages to make a good one every year, and many of them as as harmful as this one was--spreading presumably (!) false but damaging rumors. I wonder how many people will be telling me "But MD is officially dead, I read it on minidisc.org" every time I show them my shiny new player (though I want the black one so it won't be shiny at all.)~ Kiran <entropy@io.com> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobA Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Yes, please take this news down, its gonna scare people away from the format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobgoblin Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 or maybe edit the headline so that its clearly labled as a joke... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fallman2000 Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 The article never states that they are abandoning the format for good. Just that they need some stupid permission to go forward with another unit. I read the article and it doesn't say they will never make another model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Atleast Webmaster has admitted that it is a April fools JOke ..hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 no that was me. normally i'd not rename a thread except for obscenity but april fools is well & truly over & it would onlt confuse those entering from search engines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ral-Clan Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 The actual article should also have an APRIL FOOLS statement placed on it....so that people who directly go there from a link don't take it seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 no that was me. normally i'd not rename a thread except for obscenity but april fools is well & truly over & it would onlt confuse those entering from search enginesOops ..Thanks for editing the topic as it was creating confusion in the minds of Newbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdog46 Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 So call me stupid for believing that April Fools Joke. But I don't find the posting of 31 March that amusing. It would be more appropriate on 1 April. Further, I don't think it's that far fetched. For those of us have owned a business-I don't think supporting this format makes a whole lot of sense when you are a big company like Sony. A small company with a nieche (sp?) product is a whole different story. Lastly-would that post or so called joke be tolerated by a joe smoe poster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadeclaw Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 @Admin/Kurisu: Thanks for renaming it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuge Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 (edited) @Admin/Kurisu: Thanks for renaming it.Chris Didn`t renamed it ..Atrain renamed it . Edited April 5, 2006 by stuge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 So call me stupid for believing that April Fools Joke. But I don't find the posting of 31 March that amusing. It would be more appropriate on 1 April. Further, I don't think it's that far fetched. For those of us have owned a business-I don't think supporting this format makes a whole lot of sense when you are a big company like Sony. A small company with a nieche (sp?) product is a whole different story. Lastly-would that post or so called joke be tolerated by a joe smoe poster?that may be a local time for you. this is a worldwide forum & for me april 1st was close to over before some in the americas had even noticed the date.topic closed to prevent further confusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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