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oh, so this is where the psp inherited that from

I miss mine—it was sooo good!

Minidisks were a solid portable music upgrade and got popular in Europe, but never seemed to catch on in the States before CD burners ripped up the whole paradigm. They were neat but Sony being Sony did a lot of stupid shit with DRM that kinda made them weak in the Napster Revolution.

Still have mine!

It was a pretty good idea for the 6 months that it lasted.

MiniDiscs were pretty cool until portable music systems were able to play FLAC files. Then they lost the fidelity war. They had stereo component and car console MiniDisc models too.

Had both one of these and a laser disc movie player (still have one that works!), and between those and CDs I had all the shiny media platters in the house! 😆

MDs were ahead of their time. They still look futuristic.

Очень интересный плеер. Я такие разве что видел на картинках в журналах и интернете.

When Sony MD & iPod were both new, I read that the iPod was a gimmick that wouldn’t catch on so I bought the Sony. The music industry whines about people stealing music but I’ve spent a fortune in collecting vinyl > tapes > CDs > mini CDs > then trying to keep ownership of my music on apple devices

It's so solid. SO solid.

CD cases were wonderful, and prevented a lot of damage. For good or ill, media costs dropped fast enough that they were too expensive for data CDs. I last saw them on MO discs in the mid-90s.

Minidiscs were so freakin dope.

Still have mine

Man I miss minidiscs.

i had that one... the software was a total pain, but the device was lovely

I had one of these. Total waste of money, even though I thought it was cool at the time

Precisely, they basically did the same thing engineering wise. It's a disc in a protective cover and the insertion tray is the key that exposes the surface of the disc for data access.

They were awesome.

Nothing's quite as satisfying as feeling that "ka-chunk!"

Briefly magical. ❤️❤️

Beautiful

PSP disc/carts kind of had that same feel as well, if I recall correctly. Maybe not quite as nice, but not bad.

Remember the Sony Memory Stick?

This and digital audio tape, they hamstrung themselves, I suspect because the interest in their media properties made them put so many speed bumps on adoption of technologies

I want a minidisc thingy again so bad. I love them.

Oh man. I have so many insane dj sets from ATL stuck on minidisc.

This is Cool!

I had one of those I LOVED it! Until my colleague rocked up with something called an ‘MP3’ player….

Man I *loved* mini disc. May actually be the best format ever.

Never had a minidisk 💽 Regret. Feeling crazy nostalgia for my old CD player, too.

Hahahaha

I had one of those. Loved it but it wasn't supported very well.

Never had it (too pricy), but the inserting would have been soooo satisfying!!!

I feel like Sony is the transformers of tech.

I LOVED mini discs!

For real *this* is why I love using MDs so much. The tactility of changing discs is just so great.

I had (and still have, somewhere) this exact model. With a sticker of a middle finger that I got from 'Kerrang' magazine. Man, I was cool.

The Matrix made me want a MiniDisc Data MDH-10 so bad. The coolest piece of physical media

Yea, they did. Something also applicable to the PS5 now.

I had a Sony mini-disk player in highschool. I friggin loved that thing!

I have one of those things somewhere. I loved it. I thought it was cool.

I had two of those and swore they were the future 😆😆

I still have mine. Doesn't see much use nowadays. But I have recordings of my own music on minidisc, so I keep it around. My Motif 6 was a complete studio in a keyboard, and it was the best way to store completed music from it, optical out.

I always wanted a mini disc player but they never took off and before I got one I got the first iPod instead.

Stuff like this why, even though I have Spotify, I'm never giving up my Walkman CD Player.

Yeah, you're right. Probably hardware issue & cost control. Sadly. Xbox does support it through an app. 4 something that is supposed to be the center of multimedia in the living room, lacking cd support is a shame, whereas it's working for brs, dvds (which I consider the same old technology as cds)

So, I know that audio CDs use a completely different laser so it actually would mean added cost to the ODD. But, It would be a couple dollars max. Makes me wanna slap somebody.

Sony and Casio made really innovative things