You need to concider whos bearing the cost. With this the media is cheap, the cost gets dumped onto the consumer throught the hardware. With SD the cost is a heavier burden onto the the content owner. one of the things that it comes down to is have the consuper pay 5$ per minidisc thing or well over 5 for an SD card. The second is locking the content down, its a lot harder for someone to make bootlegs of this than anything they can do no sd.
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You need to concider whos bearing the cost. With this the media is cheap, the cost gets dumped onto the consumer throught the hardware. With SD the cost is a heavier burden onto the the content owner.
one of the things that it comes down to is have the consuper pay 5$ per minidisc thing or well over 5 for an SD card. The second is locking the content down, its a lot harder for someone to make bootlegs of this than anything they can do no sd.