Over at the BBC an article discussing Sony’s latest attempt to push the MiniDisc: the successor is called Hi-MD. The new format for the disks allows for storage of over 45 hours of music. Sony finally got the clue too (I’m sure I wasn’t the only MD owner who thought about this):
“Sony has learnt from the example of digital music players that use hard drives or memory cards to store music.
The new Hi-MD recorders will be able to act as external hard drives, letting people store photos, presentations or documents on a disc. ”
A kind of late, particularly since Sony had the disc introduced in the early Nineties to replace the old audio cassette and to make it compete against Philips’ DCC tape.
Those MD players are old dated. Sony missed the boat with harddisk based music players, and they’ll regret it.