MiniDiscs - 21 years of almostness
... launched in 1992..
The BBC reports the end of MiniDisc player production by Sony as below
Sony has announced it is to deliver its last MiniDisc stereo next month.
It marks an end to the firm's support for the system which it launched in 1992.
The format only ever had limited success outside of Japan and was ultimately doomed by the rise of recordable CDs and MP3 players.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-21297024
Would guess a few of you out there may have a few minidisks knocking around, myself have somewhere a sharp player with 20 plus discs full of 'live' event recordings from the turn of the century.
I never used it for much else really, always struck me as a bit almost when used it, as in almost the solution but just quite not
Any member mindisks tales out there ....
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