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To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (8782)	4/5/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: Tom Trawinski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

Source: Wired 7.05 The Zip drive did its best to kill sneaker-net -- toting files on floppies between machines. Now, Apple is hammering the final nail in the coffin with an optional DVD-RAM drive in the latest G3 models. Apple says the $550 drive, built by Panasonic, will primarily be for backup and archiving, with 2.6GB of single- or dual-sided rewritable, removable storage. In the alphabet soup of standards, this is not to be confused with much more expensive DVD-R drives, which are used to author full-length DVD movies. Of course, this drive will read your CDs and play Blade Runner DVD in all its glory. Expect to see graphics and multimedia pros, long burdened by big files, lugging fat wallets around instead. At about 0.008 cents per MB, DVD-RAM is one of the most affordable storage methods to date.

To: Cameron Dorey who wrote (8782)	4/8/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 10072

>>Didn't Allen say on one of these threads a while back that he had a Minidisk player in his car for music? And he's still a bull on IOM. Sounds like either he can't follow his own instincts or he isn't convinced that this (old) technology will be the "Clik! killer."<< Cameron - I'm responding a few days after the fact because I'm in The Bahamas on a job. I'll be here for a month. I've had MiniDisc systems since the format was introduced, over five years ago. I was so taken with the product that I bought the very first MiniDisc portable recorder/player, the MZ1. Currently, I have a MiniDisc deck in my home system, a really tiny, cunning portable player, and a car unit. All are by Sony. I like the easy portability of the MiniDiscs, and the sound quality is fine for music on the move. All that having been said, I can't see how Sony's satellite-based system is going to succeed. I'm supposed to buy a set-top box that will allow me to download music to my MiniDiscs? What's the box going to cost? Will I be able to get any music I want, or will I be limited to Sony Music recording artists? I don't think people want a separate system just for downloading music, especially if that music comes in a proprietary format. Now, if you could download the music through a set-top box that also gives you fast Internet access, maybe that would be attractive. As far as I can see, this Sony venture won't really compete with or have any effect upon Clik! - Allen