Wow (Score 1)

That article really petered out over the course of that rant. Durability? I've had two Mini-Discs (I just thought they sounded better) and they both shat the bed on me within a couple years of use. Sony should have opened the Atrac3, to make it the format over mp3. that could've slowed the downloading of songs on the old dial-up, possibly. MiniDiscs survived because of the non-US markets for it. Sony really missed the mark on the HD-Minidisc by not using them as format for the PSP (1GB vs 1.7GB) as well. The UMD smacks of the Hubris that is Sony. Why does Sony think that every product it uses must have it's own, unique accessories? I thought the PSP used HD-MDs for a long time. It made sense, I heard about them both around the same time.