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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (11300)	3/16/2006 10:53:46 AM
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This is a replay of what Sony did with Minidisc. It may be that the iPod would have destroyed Minidisc no matter what Sony did. Still, they did everything they could to assist in their own demise, spending time and money on internecine DRM warfare between the electronics division and the content divisions while customers waited for products that never came. The Minidisc started ahead of its time; it can still do some things no other comparably-priced technology can do. But it's dead anyway...Sony's content division killed it by, for example, preventing customers from uploading their own recordings--that is, of their own garage bands made with their own microphones--to their computers in digital form, even though the MD devices always kept the data in digital form. To get music on your PC you had to go through an absurd D-to-A-to-D conversion. The first Sony shirt-pocket MD recorder with hassle-free digital upload was released within the past year, after a management shakeup, years of customer defections, and hundreds of millions in losses. It's beyond belief to see the PS3 going down the same road. --QS

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