Nothing of merit.:)
Sony does claim a 15% market share however. In any case my, admittedly poorly documented and rash statement (I've had a bad day dealing with obnoxious LA based clients) was based on spending significant time in Singapore and Japan where one need only catch a train to see that md players are more popular than their equivalent formats.
Of course this has changed in the last year or two. mp3 based players, especially the ipod, have most likely taken over.
I'm aware that slashdot is a US site, and thus it's bound to have a predominantly US-centric view of the world, but minidisc has been the predominant format for portable music OUTSIDE of the US, at least in Asia, for many many years now. If the new jukebox Walkmans are the next minidisk I think Sony would be very happy.
Yugo Nakamura of www.yugop.com fame has been showing video of this technology in some of his conference talks since early 2001. It's been on sony's website since at least then as well.
Still damn cool though.
All those complaining that todays sets contain too many specialised pieces need to take off their rose tinted spectacles. Or pull their heads from their asses. Either way.
Since the late 70's all Lego sets I've owned have contained specialised pieces. From the 4x4 plates with axles, red wheels and little tires, to the full car chassis plates. Spruce trees, foliferous trees, bushes, the many fence pieces, doors's windows and arches.
This set I owned at one point, and was which released in 1977 contains an entire boat hull for crying out loud.
Looking through the Lego.com store, I see mostly pieces that I have in my two giant tubs of my childhood Lego back home, and the haven't been played with since the mid 90's.
True, there are some new parts that are questionable, like the vented panels they seem so fond of using in a lot of the technic and star wars sets these days, but my god, have any of you actually built the TIE Interceptor or X-Wing models?! They are fricking amazing sets. And nary a special piece to be seen that couldn't be used in some other way. Certainly no piece in there any more stupid than the foliferous tree.
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Nothing of merit. :)
Sony does claim a 15% market share however. In any case my, admittedly poorly documented and rash statement (I've had a bad day dealing with obnoxious LA based clients) was based on spending significant time in Singapore and Japan where one need only catch a train to see that md players are more popular than their equivalent formats.
Of course this has changed in the last year or two. mp3 based players, especially the ipod, have most likely taken over.
I'm aware that slashdot is a US site, and thus it's bound to have a predominantly US-centric view of the world, but minidisc has been the predominant format for portable music OUTSIDE of the US, at least in Asia, for many many years now. If the new jukebox Walkmans are the next minidisk I think Sony would be very happy.
Yugo Nakamura of www.yugop.com fame has been showing video of this technology in some of his conference talks since early 2001. It's been on sony's website since at least then as well. Still damn cool though.
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All those complaining that todays sets contain too many specialised pieces need to take off their rose tinted spectacles. Or pull their heads from their asses. Either way.
Since the late 70's all Lego sets I've owned have contained specialised pieces. From the 4x4 plates with axles, red wheels and little tires, to the full car chassis plates. Spruce trees, foliferous trees, bushes, the many fence pieces, doors's windows and arches.
This set I owned at one point, and was which released in 1977 contains an entire boat hull for crying out loud.
Looking through the Lego.com store, I see mostly pieces that I have in my two giant tubs of my childhood Lego back home, and the haven't been played with since the mid 90's.
True, there are some new parts that are questionable, like the vented panels they seem so fond of using in a lot of the technic and star wars sets these days, but my god, have any of you actually built the TIE Interceptor or X-Wing models?! They are fricking amazing sets. And nary a special piece to be seen that couldn't be used in some other way. Certainly no piece in there any more stupid than the foliferous tree.