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MiniDisc: The format that failed
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.
6 Discontinued Sony Formats (And Why They Failed)
MP3 quickly became the preferred lossy format, and MiniDisc was hamstrung by how it could only record audio in real time.
Digital Trends28d
Sony quits Blu-ray, MiniDV, and MiniDisc recordable media but don’t freak out
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 ...
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Wireless MiniDisc Walkman Has Bluetooth Inside
[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 ...
Tom's Guide25d
Sony announces it's no longer making recordable Blu-Rays — here's what to know
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 ...
Sony Japan ends production of recordable Blu-rays with ‘no successor’ planned
Sony is officially ending production of recordable Blu-rays. In an announcement from Japan spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Sony Storage Media Solutions said it will stop manufacturing the discs in February ...