With the annual Awards issue of What Hi-Fi? out in the shops now, I thought it would be a good time to look back a quarter of a century to the November 2000 issue of the magazine. How mad is that, by ...

On the face of it, Minidisc was the perfect format to replace the seriously obsolete Compact Cassette. It had most of the advantages of a non-linear optical format, with the convenience of a small ...

Inside the new PowerBook It appears that a lucky few are getting their hands on the Titanium PowerBook. Schoun Regan (from Complete Mac Seminars) sent us a photo of the new laptop with its bottom ...

In the long history of recorded media, Sony’s MiniDisc format barely registers as a blip on the timeline. In hindsight, it was doomed from the start—forced to compete with immensely popular CDs and an ...

The MiniDisc recorder was in my pants. This was how you bootlegged a concert in 1998—you'd come into the hall with no bag, ready for the pat-down, with a stereo microphone wired up your arms and ...

Sony has announced that it is stopping production of Minidisc recorders and players after 21 years. Most 20 year old audio enthusiasts would be surprised to hear that they were born after the arrival ...

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 ...

RIP MiniDisc, we hardly knew ye. Yes, Sony recently sounded the death knell for the digital format (first introduced in 1992), announcing that the final MiniDisc players would ship in March. In many ...

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 ...