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I remember using them over CDs purely because they had that ghost-in-the-shell anime-scifi feel, although burning a CD was much less pain than converting & writ
by krsdcbl 7y ago
I remember using them over CDs purely because they had that ghost-in-the-shell anime-scifi feel, although burning a CD was much less pain than converting & writing to my Sony MD player
- dijit 7y agoSAME! Added bonus that it's what Neo uses in the first matrix movie to give some software to the guy who knocks his door in the opening scene. I always wanted to use minidisks as a data medium, but it seems like it was never really possible. For the sake of suspending disbelief at the film I like to imagine that Neo encoded the data into the audio channels, but that would be super slow to load.
- wazoox 7y agoThere was MD-Data. 128 MB per disk IIRC.
- dijit 7y agoSeems like you're right but I never-ever saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwtCBj5jEs Although it seems like it's not really minidisks.
- darkr 7y agoYep - this was a somewhat common format for pro-audio hardware in the early 2000s.
- dasKrokodil 7y agoI think there were even 4- and 8-track MD recorders IIRC.
- sfuller808 7y agomainly because it was cheaper than ADATs.
- throwanem 7y agoAt least some Hi-MD (and I think Net-MD) decks can format and use regular MD media in data mode, behaving as a removable drive and storing about 300MB (by modern standards, very slowly) on a 74-minute disc. That capability postdates The Matrix, so I've been assuming small files and some sort of deniable, purely acoustic steganography that's resilient to ATRAC compression.
- sho 7y agoI had one as well and it was very cool... but could never use it regularly over my Discman simply because ATRAC sounded so horrible! MP3 was the first audio compression which was even remotely acceptable. Still, it was very futuristic and I loved it for what it was. Now DAT on the other hand.. that was the bomb.