Its All About the money (FORUM: MiniDisc VS MP3)

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Product:	FORUM: MiniDisc VS MP3
Date:	05/10/01 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: Mini discs are better

Disadvantages: Mini discs are expensive

Minidiscs are at the moment a more mature technology then MP3 and that perhaps is why they are better. MP3's are great but don't get me wrong I think that their appeal is limited.

The main problem I have with them is the fact that when you get bored of listening to the same thing in the middle of a day you have limited options as your archive is at home on the PC whereas with MD you have a whole record collection in one of your pockets.

This fact about archiving means that i feel that a recordable MD with a few discs is a better option then say an MP3 player.

When MP3 gets good enough and the devices on which you play them have affordable memory modules then you should consider one. But for the moment go with the norm the standard get an MD and a computer with a soundcard.

Then you can download the MP3's you have got onto an easily archivable medium. With MD's at the £1 mark it is cheap to maintain as well.

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