> MiniDisc was a huge success for Sony, and was the winner of the tape-replacement format war in virtually every country - except the USA Well, don't know abou

> MiniDisc was a huge success for Sony, and was the winner of the tape-replacement format war in virtually every country - except the USA Well, don't know about "virtually", but in Europe I only know one person who had one, and I don't remember seeing any on the street / bus / metro. I remember people having tape walkmans, then portable CD players for a short while, than massively switching to MP3 players when they became available, probably because CD players were extremely unpractical. I used to have an MP3-capable CD player, which kind of mitigated the problem, but it was still not great. I remember looking at minidisc players at the time, and the MP3 CD looked much more practical to load with music and also much cheaper, so I went with that.