On the face of it, Minidisc was the perfect format to replace the seriously obsolete Compact Cassette. It had most of the advantages of a non-linear optical format, with the convenience of a small ...
Sony has announced that it is stopping production of Minidisc recorders and players after 21 years. Most 20 year old audio enthusiasts would be surprised to hear that they were born after the arrival ...
Back at the very end of the last century, my brother fell in love with a Japanese woman. They began planning a life together—getting married, starting a family—and it quickly became clear that he ...
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 success ...
Though you may have completely forgotten it existed, the MiniDisc was actually pretty revolutionary when it was introduced in 1992. It used magneto-optical technology and behaved a little like a hard ...
“I don’t know why, but the MiniDisc player has a magical aura of cool,” says MiniDisc and I-Pod user Shavan Persad, a senior at Miramar High. He is right. There is something beautiful about the design ...
After discontinuing the production of cassette Walkmans last year, Sony is now about to kill another one of their original inventions: the MiniDisc Walkman. And as Japanese business daily The Nikkei ...
MiniDisc combined the digital benefits of a CD with mix tape abilities of a cassette in a durable pocket-friendly package. Time is running out to enjoy MiniDisc as Sony has stopped producing disk ...
It all started back in July 2011 when Sony announced that it would be winding down production of the MiniDisc format beginning in September of that year. Almost a year-and-a-half later, we're now ...
Animal Collective‘s Feels turns 20 next month, and they’re celebrating with a deluxe reissue that will be out October 17, which is just one day shy of its actual anniversary. It’s available on triple ...
(CBS) - We don't know what struck us more from this Japan Real Time report: the fact that Sony has decided to kill the Sony MiniDisc Walkman or the fact that the Sony MiniDisc Walkman was still alive?