Following last October's decision to finally retire the Walkman cassette player, Sony has said today it will also be killing off the MiniDisc Player later this year. Overall, the company has sold 22 million MiniDisc Players but demand has been lackluster, to say the least, over the past 5 years. The company will stop production on the players in September. Sony launched the MiniDisc ...
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Originally posted by toked:LoL...probably because it has been sitting in a box since 1993. My Nintendo Virtual Boy still works too (the last time I tried it anyway).
I still have my Coby walkman form 1992. It still works o_o
Originally posted by ps3lvanub:Same here, used mine up to around 04-05 as well. Just went and grabbed it out of the office and I have 27 discs with music and a bunch of blanks, haha. Each disc is dedicated to an artist and one disc will hold like 2-3 albums (I think). When it came out it was pretty bad ass, but then the mp3 player hit the market and it stood no chance.
I still have it, actually.
Originally posted by LordRuss:
Another proprietary POS control over the human condition... rant, rant, rant... I'm surprised this thing even made it to the US. I'm even surprised the DAT player wasn't mentioned in the same breath.
Originally posted by dirtyash:LoL...it is so easy to forget (?or repress?) the days when you couldn't even put a hundred high quality CD rips on something the size of a pinky fingernail.
Originally posted by ps3lvanub:Same here, used mine up to around 04-05 as well. Just went and grabbed it out of the office and I have 27 discs with music and a bunch of blanks, haha. Each disc is dedicated to an artist and one disc will hold like 2-3 albums (I think). When it came out it was pretty bad ass, but then the mp3 player hit the market and it stood no chance.
I still have it, actually.
Originally posted by ps3lvanub:LoL...the grand tradition of Sony piracy.
I had a walkman MD player and a TEAC Reference MD player. Sadly, the TEAC has passed on. My fondest memory of minidisc was probably when I was around 10 (6 yr ago) and I begged my friend to let me borrow his 'The Eminem Show' CD so I could back it up onto MD because I wasn't allowed to have it at the time. I remember having the volume on the next to bottom and anxiously glancing at the door every 10 seconds in case my dad came it. The memories :)
Originally posted by dirtyash:
When it came out it was pretty bad ass, but then the mp3 player hit the market and it stood no chance.
Originally posted by Xplorer4:Yeah it never caught on anywhere I believe. But it was cool: the discs wouldn't scratch, it was near impossible to make it skip and the discs held a lot of music (even if it was a lousy compression format).
Originally posted by dirtyash:
When it came out it was pretty bad ass, but then the mp3 player hit the market and it stood no chance.
Honestly it never caught on around here. I was the only person I ever knew to actually have one of them. I liked the fact the discs were so much more durable then a cd. They didnt simply get starched up and not play anymore unlike CDs.
Originally posted by hearme0:I cannot agree with you more. I still love the colorful MDs and the High quality sound it preserves.
The absolute ALL TIME best thing for musicians in terms of recording.
I love mine and love the idea. The only "recordable device" that is worthy of having at this time.
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