So McDonalds dumped a potential cross marketing deal with Apple for this? Musta been cheaper for McD's because it certainly won't have broader appeal...
bertagert said:Actually, mini disc are hugh in japan and other areas just like the ipod is here in the usa and europe.
bertagert said:Actually, mini disc are hugh in japan and other areas just like the ipod is here in the usa and europe.
gensor said:Yes, everyone wants a mini.
Gyroscope said:Call me crazy but I love MiniDisc. Over the past couple of years I had nothing but praise for it. Maybe its just me,but must have that spinning (disc,LP) feeling when listening to music. Ipod is nice and everything but I just don't like being bound to computer to transfer my music onto player. With MiniDisc you can swap discs with yor mates(instead of "lets go to my place and i ll transfer some songs onto your iPod" ),can record live shows,can record from analog sources etc. Look Sony may never make anything out of MiniDisc (judging by the past) but these devices are not crap by any means.
As for online music stores,well i don't really care. I am still buying my records with added tangible feeling to it.
dongmin said:And minidisc is skip-free
Dippo said:I also have a Minidisc player, and while the hardware is actually quite good, the software is terrible. All music (non-DRM) has to be "check out" when added to a minidisc and the OpenMG interface is the worst. I eventually had to use Realplayer to transfer the songs, and that was barely tolerable.
The minidisc player I have is able to play almost 50 hours on one AA battery and the discs only cost like $2 a piece. So it does have it's good points, but the bad points are far too great.
If someone could figure out how to use iTunes to transfer to Minidisc, then maybe I would still use it, but as it stands now, my minidisc player is on the shelf unused.
acidrock said:um... no you can burn them to Cd
Sony says Connect songs will work on portable CD players and Walkman devices that use Memory Stick removable flash media.
gwuMACaddict said:nope
i had one of the original minidiscs for jogging. it was worthless. skipped all the time. and i hated that you could really only record once on a disc... i think this technology is useless... why doesnt anyone do anything with flash memory yet?
"We're not trying to convert customers from one paying service to another," says Jay Samit, Connect's general manager. He wants to lure people who download from free services such as Kazaa and Morpheus to Sony's pay service. "This is about broadening the entire audience."
gwuMACaddict said:nope
i had one of the original minidiscs for jogging. it was worthless. skipped all the time. and i hated that you could really only record once on a disc... i think this technology is useless... why doesnt anyone do anything with flash memory yet?
1) iTunes Music Store is both for MAC and PC.coolfactor said:How is this any different than Apple's strategy?
coolfactor said:How is this any different than Apple's strategy?
jxyama said:i also believe ATRAC is not as bad as you make it sound. i have over 500 MD recorded, some of them using MDLP2, and they are just fine. i don't see obvious evidence that they are any worse than AAC for most music.