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i remember in 1982 the father of one of my best friends then worked as a sales-guy for Toshiba. so my buddy allways had the newest crap they had, f. ex. he came around the corner with a KT-AS10, i was as envy as anything, last but not least i bought me a WM-D6C brandnew in 1983 to end the challange.

there were also those red Toshiba-kimonos wich his dad brought home from an exibithion, we wore those permanently, as it was also the good old „karate-kid“-era...

ha, nice to remember that

 

Like no other as you were forced to use the Sony SonicStage software.
Every review from that time was like "If you didn't have to use SonicStage we would give this five stars".

 

Similar, except you have to use iTunes which at the time was easier to use and better supported. I suspect that all these restrictions were to try and placate the record companies who had already killed off DAT and MiniDisc in the USA. Would the record companies have ever signed up to the iTunes store is you had been able to copy files straight from one player to another?

On interest what did the Microsoft Zune do? We never got those in Europe.

Not being tied into proprietary software is why I have a collection of later Sony players where you can drag and drop MP3s, AACs, Wav or many other files into them and they will play. By then, when a cheap computer with a CD Burner could store and make CDs the argument for copy protection was wearing thin. Fun fact: do you know that film companies in the USA tried to ban VCRs before realising they could sell all their back catalogues to consumers on tapes ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc.

You won't find many MP3s on any of my computers or players. My Media Center PC has almost all my CDs stored as Wavs. Adequate storage on Desktop computers was cheap even ten years ago. I do intend to convert them to FLAC one day although it might be easier and cheaper to just buy a bigger memory card than the 400GByte I have at the moment

 

Same as my Ericsson phone from that era. Full of Sony bloatware. It could play WAV but limited to 16khz

 

This was the reason I never cared for MD and for Apple's products. I always liked the size and the feel of MDs and the players, but their upload-download-checkin-checkout system felt too restrictive. And I have never bought a single track from iTunes store, in fact I got my first Apple computer just three years ago. Luckily, it is all streaming now. My smartphone is an Android phone that has a microSD slot.

Back to cool videos... or not? You decide. A 2-minute Russian ad.

 

The Russian advert is definitely worthy of "cool videos".
I wonder if the moving sliders were inspired by this

 

That Amstrad looks cool......But predictably, it has a particle board back