Thread: Becoming a format snob
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Old 08-14-2011, 05:33 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Eisengoth View Post
I probably could have stated it more eloquently, but it's really just the same frustration I had with Minidisc (Sony's stupidity), DVD-R/+R, and then HD-DVD/Blu-Ray...
I believe that minidisc was the last format that Sony released that was actually trying to solve a problem, that being digital recording without the limitations of the then nascent optical recordables, rather than locking the consumer into their ecosystem. I have several friends in journalism who were upset when Sony finally drew the curtain on the format a couple of years ago.

Sony forcing owners of their early digital audio players to transcode their MP3s to ATRAC, Memory Stick and UMD were simply attempts to screw the consumer.
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