Though you may have completely forgotten it existed, the MiniDisc was actually pretty revolutionary when it was introduced in 1992. It used magneto-optical technology and behaved a little like a hard ...

Sony has announced it'll stop making and selling MiniDisc stereos next month, so it's the end of an era. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his liking for all ...

Sony quietly announced the release of the last stereo system that will ever feature its MiniDisc format, effectively killing the format. Frankly, we were surprised to hear the 20-plus year old disc ...

As of next month, the Sony MiniDisc will be no more. A report by Asahi (via Engadget) says that Sony has stopped producing the portable audio players, which were meant to be a replacement for the ...

Sony has announced that as of February 2025, it’s no longer going to manufacture four types of recordable media: Blu-ray Disc media, MiniDiscs for recording, MD data for recording, and MiniDV ...

When I mentioned to a co-worker that I was going to have a look at Sony’s new MiniDisc offering, the MZ-M200, he looked at me with a grimace and let me know exactly how he felt about the previous ...

Hot on the heels of the most successfu storage mediums of all time -- MiniDisc and Zip disks -- Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a ...

Sony announced plans to discontinue the MiniDisc player nearly two years ago following a surprising 21 year run. The company is just now getting around to putting the final nail in the coffin of the ...

Get out your calendars—Sony will be making its final MiniDisc stereo system in March, marking an end to the 20-year-old media format. MiniDisc was launched in 1992, but never saw widespread success ...

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