Any of you ever pay money for a Sony Mini Disc?

[sdifox]

I heard of it but never bought into it. I remember getting a mini CD as a driver disk once, and I had to Google it as I never realized the second smaller indentation in my CD tray was for mini disks.

Err, different things. Smaller CD is still CD. Minidisc resembles a 3.5" floppy disc, except it's rigid. So a rigid disc encased in square plastic.

It was a MO drive.

 

[BudAshes]

No but I i've always hated CD's. So easily damaged. Mini-disc would be way cooler, wish we had gone that way.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Speaking of techs that never went far, anyone ever hear of the CED? It was essentially a high density record that used capacitance.

BTW That channel is pretty cool.

 

[sdifox]

No but I i've always hated CD's. So easily damaged. Mini-disc would be way cooler, wish we had gone that way.

Mp3 player killed MD

 

[IronWing]

Speaking of techs that never went far, anyone ever hear of the CED? It was essentially a high density record that used capacitance.

BTW That channel is pretty cool.

My dad bought one. It worked pretty well. It took a few years before tape was noticeably better video quality.

 

[nOOky]

Err, different things. Smaller CD is still CD. Minidisc resembles a 3.5" floppy disc, except it's rigid. So a rigid disc encased in square plastic.

It was a MO drive.

I know that

 

[Herr Kutz]

Wanted one of those small minidisc players back in the day; thankfully they were too expensive.

 

[nakedfrog]

Speaking of techs that never went far, anyone ever hear of the CED? It was essentially a high density record that used capacitance.

BTW That channel is pretty cool.

I ran across a couple of the discs at a thrift store last year and bought them just because. I have a couple Laserdiscs for the same reason. Some of them might end up as clocks.

 

[Ichinisan]

Does anyone not have a clue what I'm talking about?

Like so many things, Sony MD was big in Japan.

 

[GobBluth]

Guilty. I had both the minidisk player in home, as well as the "walkman"

 

[slpaulson]

I had one back in the day when I was too cheap to buy an iPod (not sure if iPod was released yet) Their shitty software that converted mp3s to their proprietary format ruined what could have been a decent product.

 

[sdifox]

I had one back in the day when I was too cheap to buy an iPod (not sure if iPod was released yet) Their shitty software that converted mp3s to their proprietary format ruined what could have been a decent product.

Lol I had to use the CD changer/ MD recorder. No ATRAC converter.

 

[whm1974]

I had one back in the day when I was too cheap to buy an iPod (not sure if iPod was released yet) Their shitty software that converted mp3s to their proprietary format ruined what could have been a decent product.

Well you do know that Sony also publishes music right? Sony wasn't inclined to support MP3 anyway.

 

[pauldun170]

I loved my minidisk player. I would make my own playlists/mixes. I remember you could put a ton of music on a single disk. So much better than CDs and you could rewrite those disks.
It was awesome. The digital media players like ipod killed it.

We had one ages ago.
This is spot on.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yes, no, a few years, yes.

 

[turtile]

I had one because my dad received one free with the mini disc decks he bought. Of course, that didn't last long. I did buy another portable player long after that since the decks were the only way to record originally.

 

[pmv]

I guess the format only had a brief window of competitiveness between cassettes and hard-disk players. And Sony partly crippled it with stupid, pointless DRM nonsense.

 

[shortylickens]

I guess the format only had a brief window of competitiveness between cassettes and hard-disk players. And Sony partly crippled it with stupid, pointless DRM nonsense.

Sony loves thinking they have control over things but most of their successful products and standards are of the Open type.

 

[pmv]

Well you do know that Sony also publishes music right? Sony wasn't inclined to support MP3 anyway.

The thing with minidisc, when using the NetMD thing that let you record digitally direct from a PC, wasn't just ATRAC, it was

(a) you couldn't easily upload tracks recorded on a portable player/recorder to a PC,

(b) the ridiculous restriction that meant you couldn't even delete or reformat minidiscs that had been recorded from the PC, unless you connected it to PC again and 'checked back in' every track on them first.

(c) you were only allowed to 'check out' your tracks ripped from your own cds to your own minidiscs three times.

Such a stupid attempt to lock the stable door after the (napster) horse had bolted. Damaging Sony the hardware company for no real benefit to Sony the publisher.

Wasn't it also Sony that got done for illicitly installing SECUROM style DRM software on PCs from their cds, without notifying the owner?

The whole industry really lost their minds over mp3s, coming up with 'solutions' that caused far more problems than they solved.

 

[ShookKnight]

I remember taking one look at them and saying; nope. I don't think many artists released their music on a minidiscs.