Sony unveiled a new use for its MiniDisc media format when it introduced its first digital camcorder based on the tiny optical disc technology. Called the MD Discam, the digital camcorder represents a ...

Sony unveiled a new use for its MiniDisc media format Tuesday when it introduced its first digital camcorder based on the tiny optical disc technology. Called the MD Discam, the digital camcorder ...

Sony has announced that as of February 2025, it’s no longer going to manufacture four types of recordable media: Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV ...

Sony is ending production of recordable Blu-ray, MiniDisc and MD Data disc media, along with MiniDV cassettes, the company announced.Last year, Sony said that it would gradually end manufacturing ...

I actually own a MiniDisc player, an MZ-R90 from 1999, along with a few discs that I bought at a Sony outlet store.At the time, it was more convenient than recording audio on a cassette, and it ...

Get out your calendars—Sony will be making its final MiniDisc stereo system in March, marking an end to the 20-year-old media format. MiniDisc was launched in 1992, but never saw widespread ...

Despite Sony's firm belief that MiniDisc - a format offering the quality of a CD with the recordable functionality of a casette - would be the Next Big Thing™, it was unceremoniously destroyed ...

The MiniDisc represents Sony at the height of its 1990s arrogance. In 1992, when the MiniDisc was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer electronics: the best TVs were Trinitrons, the ...

Sony has announced it is to deliver its last MiniDisc stereo next month. It marks an end to the firm's support for the system which it launched in 1992. The format only ever had limited success ...

Sony has announced that as of February 2025, it’s no longer going to manufacture four types of recordable media: Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV ...