Michael is talking through his hat-hole... The MD format only appearse to be fading because the HDMD format is here now... (Hi-Density Mini-disk)

Don't bother searhing Mudcat for MD information... go to the source...

Start browsing/shopping here
http://www.minidisco.com/index.html

Especially here (Hard to go far wrong for 200 bucks)
http://www.minidisco.com/mz-rh910.html

To chat with outher people about MD go here
http://www.minidisc.org/

(For the same reason you wouldn't ask a car mechanic about roofing your house....)

You can also PM me if you wanna chat about MD tech :-)

Good luck to ya Jimmyt...