In Japan, where you can rent CDs, Minidiscs boomed in popularity for a little while, since people liked to record rented CDs onto Minidisc. They took off in Europe for a little while too, but in ...

The final Sony Mini Disc players are to go on sale in March after the company halted production on the format it invented twenty years ago Reaction to the news that Sony's last ever MiniDisc players ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If we're being totally honest, today's news comes as a bit of a shock. Not because Sony has decided to stop producing MiniDisc devices after March 2013, but rather, it's the idea anyone is still using ...

In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

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 ...

(CBS) - We don't know what struck us more from this Japan Real Time report: the fact that Sony has decided to kill the Sony MiniDisc Walkman or the fact that the Sony MiniDisc Walkman was still alive?

The news comes less than a year after the electronics manufacturer stopped production of its cassette Walkmans. The MiniDisc Walkman was developed by Sony to be more compact than portable CD players ...