on 31/12/03 1:07 am the person going by the name Guillaume Grenier at
grenier.g@videotron.ca spake :
quoted 12 lines But not smart enough to allow digital uploads (MD -> computer) to be made
> But not smart enough to allow digital uploads (MD -> computer) to be made
> using the USB port that equips the MD players/recorders since several years,
> despite insistent requests from the marketplace for such a feature.
>
> I (and many other people, I would think) am looking for what this person
> describes:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=3
> 04e2d8a866bdcfd&seekm=z4Zyb.389164%24HS4.3197059%40attbi_s01#link1
>
> I still haven't found it.
>
> Sony could have seized rather easily that sizable market. Dumb Sony.
Yeah, but Sony's hardware division, whilst producing the largest turnover of
any Sony divisions, has to respect the digital rights managements
requirements of Sony Entertainment who make the majority of Sony's profit.
They are in a manufacturers paradox. Hence no iPod equivalent as Sony don't
support non-digitally rights managed formats such as MP3, but instead use
their own format ATRAC3.
Protecting their interests, as a business, isn't dumb [well, it is if you
are an anti capitalist, but they aren't, they are a business]. I'm sure the
market whilst seeming big to you as an individual is quite small to them as
a company. It's all a matter of perspective.
See
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/sony.html?pg=1 for a different
perspective.
Now Digital Rights Management ... that is dumb ;-)
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