I think a lot of the west first saw them in an early Ralph Fiennes film - Strange Days. The disc is shown in the first 20 seconds of the trailer: https://www.

I think a lot of the west first saw them in an early Ralph Fiennes film - Strange Days. The disc is shown in the first 20 seconds of the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaXPx6xWEQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaXPx6xWEQ I had one of the earlier Sony models, which was great - but if anything bad happened when "Writing TOC" (Table Of Contents) was happening, everything on the disc became unreadable. The filesystem was probably the worst thing about mini-disc aside from general availability. The best thing about them was they were next gen mix-tapes, but random-access rather than sequential. It made editing a playlist way easier (sometimes maxing out available storage to the second) plus they were R/W which means they were also superior to burning CDs which were all still write-only in that era.