In defense: (Score 1)

this topic seems to have turned into a huge Sony bashing session. As a long standing proud owner of minidisc players I want to clear up some misconceptions from other posters who have probably never tried minidisc and certainly haven't tried Connect: 1. Why the hard time over the fact that Connect is linked exclusively to Sony devices with a proprietary file format? Why does iTunes/ACC/iPod get off the hook here? Same thing, different company. Now finally as a SOny user I have my version of iTunes to seamlessly integrate with my device. 2. Yes Sonicstage has had some growing pains as a software but I would say it's comparable now to most of the competition. 3. You can burn regular Audio CDs from Sonicstage just like with iTunes - many here on the board are saying you can't. 4. Personally I like the fact that my minidisc runs 40 hours on one AA battery (externally and easily replacable anywhere thank you iPod) and that the disc is a removable media should my player bite the dust (it just won't die much as I have dropped it) 5. The new Hi-MD units soon to be released should provide enough storage for most casual users out there. A couple of hundred songs on one disk. how many of us really need 40GB accessible at any one time.