MiniDiscs: The Future Is Now!

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noiseredux
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Re: MiniDiscs: The Future Is Now!

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xxstatic wrote:Funny.....first time I saw a PSP I thought to myself...finally Sony found another use for the MD.... :P
haha, me too. In fact when you look at a UMD, it's sort of like why didn't Sony just use an MD drive on the PSP? It would have been a lot easier for them I'd assume.
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Re: MiniDiscs: The Future Is Now!

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noiseredux wrote: haha, me too. In fact when you look at a UMD, it's sort of like why didn't Sony just use an MD drive on the PSP? It would have been a lot easier for them I'd assume.
I would guess that a big part of the decision is due to minidiscs being magnetic media.
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