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MiniDisc
A compact digital audio disc from Sony that comes in read-only and rewritable versions. Introduced in late 1993, the MiniDisc has been most popular in Japan. The read-only 2.5" disc stores 140MB compared to 650MB on a CD, but holds the same 74 minutes worth of music due to Sony's Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) compression scheme, which eliminates inaudible signals. MD discs store disc and track titles displayed by the player. Used for music recording, rewritable MiniDiscs employ magneto-optic technology and come in 60 and 74-minute cartridges. The MiniDisc drive for computers (MD DATA) never caught on.

MiniDisc Cartridge
Most popular in Japan, the MiniDisc has gained some followers in the U.S.
minidisc
a small recordable compact disc


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Unfortunately the cost of the thing was such that it worked out cheaper to have the piece of music you wanted to hear transcribed onto mile-high sheets of gold and performed by a band consisting of Buddy Holly, Elvis and Jimmy Hendrix, rather listening to it on MiniDisc.
Recording a bit of history; MALE BOX with Matt Thomas by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
How revolutionary the MiniDisc seemed when it was first released in 1992; it combined the audio quality of a CD player with the versatility of a tape.
History?s Great Redundancies by Gail Kenny / Business community
Amazingly, the survey of 1,000 adults even showed 22 per cent of people could not remember the minidisc.
1 in 4 kids hasn't heard of records; TECHNOLOGY by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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