Interesting. I registered and had a look at the postings.
What worries me a bit is that (hope not!) the new generation of recorders
won't have a mic input or analog input at all.
Klas.
At 00:51 2005-10-02, you wrote:
>Hello All,
> Had to share this surprising and disturbing news.
> Mark R.
> From the MD Forums>
> Hi, it's the administrator kurisu. Either I see you every day, or you've
>been around once and never again. Your still a friend, and must know what'=
s
>occuring.
>
>The Minidisc format is seemingly going to stop being actively developed.
>Sony's recent initative to restructure and give more definition to their
>products has initated the decision to cut "15 product lines.." This is ver=
y
>disturbing news. Right now there's a very slim chance that Hi-MD may even
>see a third generation, and if it were, it would probably be the definitiv=
e
>last. I'm not so sure anymore that the Connect Player will even support MD=
.
>There's something else on the horizon now, a unified approach.
>
>Sony had a recent webcast in New York, displaying the path in which they
>would take for the next few years. Walkman was incessantly touted, but MD
>was nowhere to be seen. Judging by the focus of the webcast, it should've
>was very clear as to what Sony's immediate future will be, and I can
>honestly say I do
>not see MD in the equation.
>
>This is causing an uproar in the community; please visit the (massive)
>discussion thread about it and share opinions with fellow MD enthusiasts -=
-
>
>http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=3D12318
>
>Regards,
>
>Christopher MacManus
>Founder, Sony Voice Network
>
>
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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