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03/23/2006, 8:45am, EST
Thursday, March 23rd
Sony MiniDisc Walkman to support Macs
Sony for the first time will offer Mac compatibility with its new MiniDisc Walkman, according to Macworld UK. "The company took the wraps off its all-new MiniDisc product, the MZ-RH1, this morning. This portable device is being marketed as a mobile recording studio. Sony plans to make the device Mac compatible, 'bringing greater choice in digital audio devices to Mac users.'" The report says that Sony will release Mac software for the new product this summer, following the May availabiity of the player in Europe. Sony's new MiniDisc player will support audio recording with different modes and several different file formats, including LinearPCM, MP3, or Sony's proprietary ATRAC (ATRAC, ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus) formats and that it will be able to record audio.
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Memo to Sony: The war's over, guys, and you lost it. Long ago, and badly. All those Mac users you appear to be coveting now have been iPod users for years and are probably on their second or third iPod. Even when the time comes for them to consider their next portable player, they'll remember that you turned your nose up at their money for a long time prior to that, and they'll continue to buy iPods.
Show me a device for the iPod Nano that will do the same with a full 74 mins of digital audio and I'll get that instead (no mics please, just line-in), but until then, MD is for me.
I always thought the Japanese were big on saving face -- the way I see it, Sony is currently a laughing stock. Nice going, guys.