Sony first introduced the MiniDisc in 1992 as a portable, ostensibly stylish, and durable alternative to CD players. With its writeable disc and plastic shell, it looked like a combination of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharp is about to introduce a new MiniDisc recorder that is both the first portable audio device to have that new super high-fidelity 1-bit technology, Skip to content Search . Home; ...

The Japanese company launched the MiniDisc in 1992. For younger readers, that was the year of the Maastrict treaty, Windows 3.1 and Lethal Weapon 3. For older readers, it's when Miley Cyrus was born.

There was an odd era at the start of the 1990s when CDs had taken the lead from vinyl in pre-recorded music, but for consumer recordable formats the analogue cassette was still king. A variety of d… ...

Thanks to enthusiasts at minidisc.wiki, you can still add songs to a MiniDisc from a modern computer using its web app. Which means we live in a world where a Pixel 9 Pro can talk to a MiniDisc ...

On a technical level, MiniDisc was an inferior format to its competitors. Sony’s ATRAC format also played a hand. It did a decent job at squeezing music down so that an hour’s worth of tunes ...

I know this is possible. I've tried about 15 different google word combinations but I can't find anything. I have a friend who has a minidisc player but no Toslink-out jack.

As someone who was all-in on MiniDisc in the early 2000s, I’ll be the first to admit that it’s a strange format. MiniDisc never really challenged formats like CD, cassette, and vinyl as a ...