" I haven't seen that substantiated, they have invested a great deal in
improvements to the medium lately, although it is getting to the point
where they really have nowhere else to go.

I haven't seen that substantiated either... but have heard some silent
background whispers.

The problem being facing stiff competition from MP3 weather this format is
better or not.

This is where the MD excelled at as a compressed recording format rather
than a playback medium since pre-recorded music is not available in droves
in music outlets.

From it's concept it never did make a huge stamping ground on the UK
market
and since it's a Sony patented design no other bugger can join in!

Dunno about that, as plenty of other people make MD walkmans.

Oh! You've surprised me. Not one to look at the portable market much other
than the proliferation of MP3 players on the market of recent times.

The problem is more likely to be due to competition from solid state
portable media, which does what MD does far better - except for the cost
of the media.

Yes true but in these computer times... soon plumet.
Until then MD has some holding ground.

The walkmans you can get these days with hard disks onto
which you can load thousands of tracks seem to eliminate the compelling
reason to hold on to removable media unless your collection is
particularly huge.

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I wonder how sick people will feel when the hardiscs fail? I'm sure some
will. Maybe not much of an issue right now but if someone has hundreds of
songs on 1 disc and they paid to have them on there.......


Steve