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1992
- Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries.
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MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio. Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November [2] of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries. [3]
As a consumer audio format, MiniDisc actually became a massive phenomenon, at least back in Sony’s homeland of Japan. The peculiar economics of the Japanese music market, especially back in the 1990s, made CDs about twice as expensive there as they were in the United States.
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Sony came up with the MiniDisc after the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format failed to take off with consumers. The company went head-to-head with Philips' Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and won the initial battle (the DCC was discontinued in 1996). MiniDisc was first conceived in the mid-1980s but wasn't commercially available until a decade later. It...
The majority of the MinDisc devices sold were portable recorders. These fused the playback abilities of a standard portable CD or cassette player, with additional line-in, USB, and optical recording options. Many of them also had in-line LCD remotes, docking stations, and expandable battery packs. Outside Japan, MiniDisc players (which offered no r...
The Web MiniDisc projectmakes it possible to use Sony NetMD players on modern Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. However, this support doesn't include Hi-MD devices or those manufactured by companies like JVC and Panasonic. Fortunately, NetMD players were sold at the height of the format's popularity, so you can find one secondhand pretty easily. Whe...
If you want to use MiniDisc in 2020 and beyond, you should make sure you at least have a Sony NetMD player to make transferring music fast and easy. You can buy one secondhand or score an even better deal by getting one from Japan. Japanese auction sites, like Yahoo! Japan (the country's largest online auction site), Rakuten, Amazon JP, and Mercari...
If you find yourself interested in MiniDisc, check out the r/MiniDisccommunity on Reddit. Some artists still release music on MiniDisc. Many vaporwave artists, in particular, have embraced MiniDiscsince that genre meshes perfectly with the rose-tinted nostalgia that draws so many to the format. Got a soft spot for antique audio formats? After you o...
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Sep 7, 2024 · Sony's MiniDisc emerged as a competitor to the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), which Philips and Matsushita (Panasonic) introduced in 1992 as a potential successor to analog cassettes.
Oct 11, 2023 · MiniDisc was a Sony invention which used the company's own Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) system, which employed intelligent data compression techniques designed along psychoacoustic principles.
Mar 8, 2022 · Sony's MiniDisc was an excellent format—"successor to cassettes, smaller, more robust, more flexible, and it sounded better"—hampered by expensive hardware, hostility from the music industry, and...
Aug 8, 2024 · MiniDisc is a format that was revolutionary and successful but often misunderstood. This wiki is the home for the community of fans who use and collect the format. We provide guides and FAQs for MiniDisc hobbyists and anyone interested in becoming one.
