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advised anyone but corporate purchasers "with a driving need to do away with a paper" against buying the Sony MMCD player, criticizing its high price and the incompatibility with other multimedia formats.
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noted that the introduction of multiple CD-ROM format compatibility logos, along with Sony's MMCD one, make shopping for multimedia titles "anything but simple" and go against the goal of
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described the interactive multimedia landscape as looking "chaotic" and stated that consumers and commercial end users "probably can't" figure out then-current format situation.
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sector format and a software format proprietary to the player. Software which the player supported was marked by the "MMCD Player
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Blissimer, Robert H. (1992-03-16). "Non-standard prototype CD-ROM system causes confusion — Sony
Bookman on show bill".
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Multimedia Player will be available at retail in November 1992 and will have a suggested list price of $ 999.95.
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e-book players. Unlike those devices, the MMCD Player could read full-size 120-millimeter CD-ROM discs, including
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