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 ...

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LAS VEGAS (CES Booth #N109), Jan. 7, 2004 -Taking the MiniDisc™ a big step forward, Sony today announced its new Hi-MD™ Walkman® digital music players. With Hi-MD technology, users can record up to 45 ...

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 ...

I'm going on a 1 year "trip", and I will be spending a lot of it listening to music. I don't have tons to spend (although I don't have an upper budget, it's just spending less is definitely better), ...

In 1992, when the quirky new music format was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer electronics In 1992, when the quirky new music format was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer ...

I'm looking to get some type of portable music device for college. I'm not the sort who listens to music enough to buy an expensive MP3 player, as nice as it would be. I've seen minidisc players ...

Sony finally caved a few months back and gradually started adding native support for MP3 playback to their digital audio players (before you had to convert everything to their proprietary ATRAC3 ...

Sony on Tuesday launched its online music store, throwing its hat into a ring that has been dominated for a year by Apple Computer's iTunes. As a competitor with significant resources--and a long list ...

Just because the Western world has poo poo’d the MiniDisc doesn’t mean Japan is ready to let the dream die quite yet. Sharp has release a new MD player, the MD-DS55 Auvi, in four new colors — ...