They also face more competition for our time. There are more and more TV shows, games, etc available now then there were years ago when everyone had to buy music and movies.
They need to update their business model and stop using the courts to enforce a dying model.
DRM me to death and i will just stop using your product and find another way to pass the time.
When faced with a divorce a lot of rich suddenly become poor. Besides living on INCOME means paying taxes but hording the wealth and using it to secure debt is more tax friendly.
you have my vote on this one.
As a laptop user, this is a KEY question for me. Everything from MS pretty much finds the card, installs the drivers and it works fine. why doesnt linux (and im not hitting FC, because SUSE has the same problem) have better support?
SUSE in particular is odd.. it's package program even tells me exactly what card i have, but there just isnt drivers around for it.
I could not agree with you more. Thinking back to when i owened a NETmd player... It was a great device, had a radio, played MD's, one rechargable AA lasted like 2 weeks of 2 hours a day playtime. Everyone else was buying flash card based players. In order to expand these you needed to buy expensive cards (no HD based players existed at this time). Not so with the MD player, it only needed relativly cheap MD's. Problem with it was two fold. One - as you mentioned, the notoriously terrible "SONIC" software. Second, the need to convert to "actrac". My old "flash" players were so easy to load. Copy some files to a flash and drop it into the player. (my computer even has a flash drive). Compare to the MD?? Hook it up, use either real audio (much prefered) or SONIC to copy. Hope SONIC doesnt hang/crash which it was prone to do (even with real, it still used the SONIC "engine"). Wait a LONG time to convert from MP3 to ACTRAC. Take disk out and put new one in. A bit of "misleading" advertising on sony's part when it said "mp3 compatible" on the box and failed to mention the need to convert EVERY FILE using by far the worst software i have ever used. Moved to a ipod (wanted a HD based player) and dont regret it. The NETmd's gathering dust somewhere.
i use to be a big sony fan.. right up until i bought myself a "netmd" player.. Anyone remember thoes evil devices? I think they spent more time on DRM then they did in making the software work. I quickly dumped the CRAP sonic (or whatever it was called) software in favor of real audio. Cant count the number of times the software hung so badly i had to reboot. the netmd could have been a great device, IF it worked properly. Alas, i dumped my NetMD in favor of an ipod. SONY, if you write MP3 on the box, then you should take MP3's.. it doesnt mention i need to wait some 40 minutes sometimes to convert MP3 to ATRAC3. Sony use to be a leader in technology, but since decided to focus on giving the consumers what they dont want instead (rootkits, overly sensitive DRM, etc) This whole PSP3 thing smells of NetMD/DAT all over again.
Speaking of which, anyone remember DAT (digitial audio tape) and why it died?
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They also face more competition for our time. There are more and more TV shows, games, etc available now then there were years ago when everyone had to buy music and movies. They need to update their business model and stop using the courts to enforce a dying model. DRM me to death and i will just stop using your product and find another way to pass the time.
When faced with a divorce a lot of rich suddenly become poor. Besides living on INCOME means paying taxes but hording the wealth and using it to secure debt is more tax friendly.
you have my vote on this one. As a laptop user, this is a KEY question for me. Everything from MS pretty much finds the card, installs the drivers and it works fine. why doesnt linux (and im not hitting FC, because SUSE has the same problem) have better support? SUSE in particular is odd.. it's package program even tells me exactly what card i have, but there just isnt drivers around for it.
I could not agree with you more. Thinking back to when i owened a NETmd player... It was a great device, had a radio, played MD's, one rechargable AA lasted like 2 weeks of 2 hours a day playtime. Everyone else was buying flash card based players. In order to expand these you needed to buy expensive cards (no HD based players existed at this time). Not so with the MD player, it only needed relativly cheap MD's. Problem with it was two fold. One - as you mentioned, the notoriously terrible "SONIC" software. Second, the need to convert to "actrac". My old "flash" players were so easy to load. Copy some files to a flash and drop it into the player. (my computer even has a flash drive). Compare to the MD?? Hook it up, use either real audio (much prefered) or SONIC to copy. Hope SONIC doesnt hang/crash which it was prone to do (even with real, it still used the SONIC "engine"). Wait a LONG time to convert from MP3 to ACTRAC. Take disk out and put new one in. A bit of "misleading" advertising on sony's part when it said "mp3 compatible" on the box and failed to mention the need to convert EVERY FILE using by far the worst software i have ever used. Moved to a ipod (wanted a HD based player) and dont regret it. The NETmd's gathering dust somewhere.
i use to be a big sony fan.. right up until i bought myself a "netmd" player.. Anyone remember thoes evil devices? I think they spent more time on DRM then they did in making the software work. I quickly dumped the CRAP sonic (or whatever it was called) software in favor of real audio. Cant count the number of times the software hung so badly i had to reboot. the netmd could have been a great device, IF it worked properly. Alas, i dumped my NetMD in favor of an ipod. SONY, if you write MP3 on the box, then you should take MP3's.. it doesnt mention i need to wait some 40 minutes sometimes to convert MP3 to ATRAC3. Sony use to be a leader in technology, but since decided to focus on giving the consumers what they dont want instead (rootkits, overly sensitive DRM, etc) This whole PSP3 thing smells of NetMD/DAT all over again. Speaking of which, anyone remember DAT (digitial audio tape) and why it died?