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Sony Unveals High-Capacity MD

(January 9, 2004)

Sony has announced that they will be releasing new, high-capacity Mini-Discs capable of storing 45 hours (over 1 gigabyte of storage capacity) of music.  Planned for an April release in the US, with European and Japanese releases to follow in June, the company hopes to renew interest in the medium.

Those following the development of Sony's PSP are probably already reasonably familiar with these new MDs.  However, what is new is that price points have been announced by the company with the MD Players/Recorders capable of playing the new high-capacity medium costing approximately 45,000yen and the discs clocking in at about 700yen each.  It's highly unlikely that games will retail for 700yen, though one has to wonder how much of a crystal ball the 45,000yen MD Player will act as in predicting a price point for the PSP (or how much of a loss the system will be sold at initially) considering that the PSP is a much more sophisticated piece of technology.