Can't believe MD's are on the way out, because (so I am told) Sony has FINALLY put out MD models that allow you to upload music directly to your computer. (They used to be too paranoid about music copyright protection to allow it!)

Well, it seems to me that if they are responding to customer pressure wrt the MD's, especially in the area of copyright protection where the Sony management are still acting like mental dinosaurs, they must be getting enough sales and customer response to justify continuing to make 'em.

My own MD recorder does not upload directly, I have to input the analog sound and record it again in the computer. Bah! Still it's better than any other recorder I ever used, for convenience, unobtrusiveness, and quite good sound quality.