Minidiscs are pitiful

Minidiscs are pitiful

Posted Nov 17, 2005 12:12 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Minidiscs are pitiful by man_ls
Parent article: Sony's rootkit: an update

Not everything from Sony is so bad: e.g. miniDV seems to be a pretty open format, and consumer video cameras are OK.

miniDV was never SONY format. Digital8 was. And... as usual: it's gone. Now SONY is trying to show that it had miniDV in mind all along, but that's not the case.

It does prove that SONY can develop pretty open devices - when pressured enough. By default SONY will develop something proprietary and closed...

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