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From:
Guillaume Grenier
To:
idm
Date:
Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:07:15 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] MD releases
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On 30/12/03 19:43, Greg Clow said in living color:
quoted 4 lines Anyway, DCC died a well-deserved death, and while MD pretty much died in> Anyway, DCC died a well-deserved death, and while MD pretty much died in > North America, Sony was smart enough to heavily market it in other regions > like Japan as a recordable format to replace cassettes as opposed to a > replacement for CDs.
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.
quoted 3 lines That basically saved the format, and allowed it to> That basically saved the format, and allowed it to > come back to life in North America a few years later (albeit on a fairly > limited basis).
g. -- Guillaume Grenier - grenier.g@videotron.ca in space there is no north in space there is no south in space there is no east in space there is no west --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org