Can you believe that Sony was still selling MiniDiscs, with the Nikkei reporting 22 million players were sold up to March 2011? If you want one brand new, you better get in quick though – as of September, it’s deeeead.
This comes years after everyone picked up an iPod or other MP3 player and forgot all about Sony’s optical format, first launched in 1992. Sad news for what was a great format back in the day – I remember being bowled over when my friend brought his Sony player to school, but as you should all remember, it was crippled by limited album releases and in typical style, exorbitant prices. [The Nikkei via CrunchGear]
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lulz
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:45 AMStill the best portable recording device surely? I always wanted one, damn it.
Sheeds
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:14 PMlol I still have my Deck Combo *in working order* with a Stereo Recorder Deck for a compnent hi-fi system and the portable Silver player.
used to love that system (thought ATRAC 4 wasi it? sounded great).
memories.
brettk
Sunday, July 10, 2011 at 10:37 PMmy current 2.1 hifi system has an inbuilt mini-disc player/recorder included, as when i bought it years ago, i thought it’d be the next big thing. Then apple decided to ruin that didn’t they.
Ash
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 9:32 AMWhy is the font size on comments so tiny in this article?
♣TadMod♣
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 9:35 AMSomebody didn’t close a tag. I’ll fix it now! :)
Thanks for the notice!
TSH
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 10:38 AMI remember my lil MiniDisc walkman. Compared to recording a mixtape, it kicked all sorts of arse. At the time I was praying that Sony would open up the standard so it could replace (then common) floppy disks for removable storage.
*sigh* Sony, when ya gonna learn…