MiniDiscs were a disaster. So why are they back?

In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab at the Sony Corporation’s sprawling audio campus ...
Time

The Ides of March: Farewell, Sony MiniDisc Player

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Digital Trends

Sony quits Blu-ray, MiniDV, and MiniDisc recordable media but don’t freak out

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 ...
Yahoo

Forget vinyl and CD – this forgotten format is my personal favourite

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eTeknix

Sony to Cease Production of Blu-ray, MiniDisc, and MiniDV by February 2025

Sony has announced that it will cease production of all Blu-ray discs, MiniDiscs, MD Data, and MiniDV cassettes starting in February 2025. The decision stems from declining demand for these formats, ...
Ars Technica

how to make copy of protected minidisc

my roomate has made dozens of minidiscs by going from his computer to the Sony NET-MD enabled portable minidisc player...this transfer has added some form of ATRAC compression I believe to the ...