Diki is right. Just because Yamaha is huge doesn't make them right. Any more than Sony
holding on to the Betamax, licensing only the inferior vhs format, and then getting blown out of the water with lower-priced vhs taking over the market and killing the better system.
Or giant RCA with its videodisc player--if they gave those away or even sold them at cost, they had the market cornered because they would have sold zillions of movie discs. But they let vhs players undercut them and everyone bought those because they thought they would be taping stuff (although it turned out very small% actually did tape shows after the initial novelty of it)
It actually almost put RCA out of business, the losses were so huge. But they stubbornly kept the price of the videodisc player higher than the vhs player.
So Yamaha is just as dumb as Sony and RCA were when it comes to stubbornly refusing to make MOTL and TOTL 76-ers. The only difference is the market is so much smaller than for the rca/sony products, it really can't hurt them that bad being dumb.

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Miami Mo

[This message has been edited by keysvocalssax (edited 06-01-2010).]