Disklavier

In one word GREED.
Why sell a CD with hundreds of songs on when you can sell one with 8 
on for £30.
If Yamaha were to fill a CDrom up with Midi or Pianosoft files it 
would cost more then the Disklavier itself.

Midi Magic 


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "jqw2 <johnq_10@s...>" 
<johnq_10@s...> wrote:
> This thread was started by another purchaser who was surprised to 
> discover that a Disklavier cannot read MIDI files from CD and that 
> MIDI files can be written only to diskette.  I'll observe that:
> 
> 1) Yamaha makes the finest reproducing pianos in the world, with 
its 
> Disklavier and Disklavier Pro lines.
> 
> 2) Yamaha makes the finest CD writers in the world, such as 
> http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/products/cdrw/crwf1.asp
> 
> Yamaha clearly has excellent engineers and programmers who 
understand 
> these hardware technologies well, along with the software drivers 
> needed for each.  It would seem that the parts cost of their CD 
> writers, within the same company, would be low.
> 
> Gosh, it seems reasonable to ask that these could come together: 
> Disklaviers should have CD-RW drives that can read and write MIDI 
> files.  What's the right way to encourage the development team, 
since 
> the limitation seems to be neither technology nor cost?
> 
> Thanks - John Q.