The final Sony Mini Disc players are to go on sale in March ... Thing™, it was unceremoniously destroyed by the arrival of mp3 and the popularity of a certain gadget from Cupertino.

However, MD Data — the non-audio data format that Sony derived from its MiniDisc platform — seems to be flirting with extinction. A quick Google search didn’t immediately reveal any non-Sony ...

MP3 quickly became the preferred lossy format, and MiniDisc was hamstrung by how it could only record audio in real time.

[Daniel Rojas] cleverly solved this problem by directly adding Bluetooth functionality to a Sony MZ-R500 MiniDisc Walkman. MiniDisc Walkmen are famously compact devices, so adding a full circuit ...

Sony announced that the company is officially halting the production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media as well as MiniDV cassettes. It's another step in the slow decline of ...

In addition to Blu-ray, Sony’s announcement also affects the MiniDisc — the compact disc format Sony made in 1992 as an alternative to more fragile cassettes and unwieldy CDs. This might make ...