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I smarted a little at the author’s invective against MiniDiscs, object of meany a cherished teenage memory.
by qubex 7y ago
I smarted a little at the author’s invective against MiniDiscs, object of meany a cherished teenage memory.
- zrail 7y agoI think until relatively recently minidisc recorders were a standard piece of kit for radio sound engineers.
- Larrikin 7y agoTheir popularity was heavily dependent on county
- qubex 7y agoI think you mean ‘country’. I grew up in Italy. I started using them in 1998 or thereabouts. I was the first one amongst my social circle who adopted them, and a couple (literally two) of friends followed suit. Everybody else was stuck with CDs and CD-Rs. They seem to have appreciated the MiniDisc’s advantages but regarded it as something not quite of our time, some kind of science fiction thing that you saw in movies but couldn’t actually buy or own. I used mine until about 2003 or thereabouts when I got a 3rd generation iPod.
- greggman3 7y agoYea, the author is probably from the USA where MiniDiscs never took off. In Japan they were huge! It's still frustrating that at end of their life some of the final models would run for 230hrs on a single charge! I know of zero mp3 players or phones that do that.
- edent 7y agoThe author is from the UK where, similarly, the Minidisc was a flop.
- ficklepickle 7y agoI found my old minidisc player recently. It still powered on despite the single ancient alkaline AA battery. Good memories.