[digi_owl]

Crazy thing is that if you could get your hands on a pro market minidisc deck, you could extract all you liked.

I think another thing sunk it, write speed.

To write to Magnet-Optical media, you first use a laser to heat the surface until it becomes magnetic. Then you zero the bit using a readwrite head much like on a HDD or floppy. Then you set it to the zero or one you want to actually be.

All this back and forth means that MO can't really keep up with HDD or flash.