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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.
Veritably printing money, Sony and other MiniDisc hardware manufacturers came to the defense of music-rental chains when the displeased Japanese record industry took them to court.
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.
Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems introduced in 1992 that were intended to replace the Philips Compact Cassette analog audio tape system: the other was the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), created by Philips and Matsushita (now Panasonic).
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...
Sep 27, 2013 · Sony stopped making portable MiniDisc players in 2011, and the announcement in February of year is the last nail in the coffin of this format.
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Feb 1, 2013 · 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...
