Sure, that's why it failed, but it's bizarre to me to focus on something metaphysical like that. If something can go from horrible to something else without changing a single atom, just Sony publishing some things under a license? What was actually horrible about it at that point, how did you let the circumstances overshadow the object?
That tells me something about you, but nothing about MiniDisk. Which was a cool little futuristic cartridge thingy.