Sony kills the Minidisc

[Cupe]

It's sad but true, following in the foot steps of last Novemeber's cassette walkman axe, Sony have announced that from March 2013 they will no longer be manufacturing and shipping their classic MiniDisc players and stereo systems.

With more than 20 years production behind the MiniDisc it will now be added to the long list of obsolete formats. Sony had previously tried to revive the format back in 2004 with Hi-MD which could hold up to 1GB worth of tracks but by that point the mp3 players had already taken over the market.

The silver lining is that Sony have said that they will continue to produce the discs themselves and repair any broken MiniDisc systems.

[russell]

Was due happening really. Surprised it took this long.

Never owned a mini disc player myself

[wrxfiend]

mini disc was one of the first ways i recorded my mixes, sniff sniff.........

still got my component player kicking around somewhere, this thread has reminded me, i should dig up those discs for a laugh!

[overit]

Aw man, sounds like MD was to you what C90 was to me.

MD was always a stepping stone between wax and cloud to me.

Just like DAT.

[Kodiak]

The only MD player I ever saw was a friend of mine, who was at the Gold Coast for a week for BDO. There was this Asian dude staying at the same hotel who was always at the casino. One day he lost big and sold most of his stuff, including a MD Walkman to my mate. The next day he had won, so bought back the stuff, but for less than he sold it for. Next day he had lost again, so my mate bought the stuff from him for less than he originally paid. So effectively made money out of the guy twice.