I should add: while there were market issues, a significant amount of the failure of MD as a format lies with Sony, who have a long track record of laboring und

I should add: while there were market issues, a significant amount of the failure of MD as a format lies with Sony, who have a long track record of laboring under the misapprehension that consumers would rather buy proprietary formats that only work on Sony gear. (See also: Betamax, DAT, Memory Stick...)