Sony kills off the MiniDisc Walkman

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited July 2011 in 2 Channel Audio
Read the article and weep

I'm going put my Michael Jackson's "Off The Wall" MiniDisc on tonight to mourn MD's demise.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited July 2011
    I thought it was already dead.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited July 2011
    Joe08867 wrote: »
    I thought it was already dead.

    That's what I thought too... I always wanted to compared the sound quality of the MiniDisc verses standard CDs, but I guess I'm 10 years too slow for that.
    Jake
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  • FTGV
    FTGV Posts: 3,649
    edited July 2011
    Humm,I also thought it was buried years ago.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited July 2011
    The what???
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited July 2011
    I used to have hundreds of mini disc. I thought they were cool and they were! A sad day indeed.
    I got static in my head
    The reflected sound of everything
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  • jephdood
    jephdood Posts: 1,671
    edited July 2011
    Jeez, yeah. I thought this was dead and buried YEARS ago. When's the press release about the termination of Betamax?
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  • swb502
    swb502 Posts: 112
    edited July 2011
    I don't think I ever even saw a minidisk in person. When did they happen?
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  • PrazVT
    PrazVT Posts: 1,606
    edited July 2011
    The 90s mostly. I had two portable players - one original one that had toslink in / outs and then a newer gen one that had USB / toslink and associated itunes'ish software. I can't say I was a big fan of ATRAC, especially since I had to convert already compressed MP3s to it. But I copied a bunch of CDs -> minidisc as lossless. SQ was great - hell I think I still have the player and 30+ MDs at my parents' house. Might dig that stuff out if it's there ;)
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited July 2011
    ...and I just blew my money on the RDO194 upgrade:eek:

    guess I'll just have to stick with cassettes for a few more years...:smile:
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited July 2011
    It was just October 2010 that Sony discontinued manufacturing the Sony Cassette Walkman. Yes, just last year! They were still reasonably popular in Asia until recently.
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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,603
    edited July 2011
    I've still got and occasionally use my Sony MD. Would like to have a component sized player for the home stereo though. But yeah, I thought these died out a few years ago.
    --Gary--
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