NintendoRev
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I had always wanted to get a minidisc player but never did ): They always seemed rather awesome.
I had this one.
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Why oh why did it have to break
I had this one...
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That player and remote look like Windows Media Player skins circa 2002.So much this...I loved my player to death, such great sound and a great format....
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My baby in high school
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I'm gonna get one of these for my collection but they're like 400 fucking dollars. Most players are in the 35-60$ range.Sonicstage really was shitty, like iTunes. But I loved my player.
I had this one.
MZ-RH1
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Such a classy product!
I still miss backlit LCD remotes, and magnesium casings to this day, some things will just never be beat.
I had two of these:
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I had this player.
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I bought one instead of an mp3 player at the time because of how tiny the capacity was on those players, compared to cost. I loved mine, except for how recording songs to a disc was just like recording to tape. If it had been easier to transfer mp3s to MD, earlier on, the format might've lasted longer.
High 5! Mine was in 'Champagne Silver'. I believe the R55 was the first MD recorder that was kinda MD-shaped - previous to that they were bigger, rectangular and pretty ugly. Unfortunately this ambitious design meant appalling battery life. Was my most prized possession at the time, and I still have it in a drawer in superb condition... can't find the bloody adapter though!![]()
Had a Sony MZ-R55 that I bought in Japan while on vacation back in 1998. I still remember having to hook it up to my stereo to record songs to the mini discs.
Sonicstage really was shitty, like iTunes. But I loved my player.
I had this one.
MZ-RH1
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Ahh but those two were playback only, not recorders?The Sharp MDS20 was a square and released in 1995.
Though you can clearly see that the buttons on the "spine" are more cassette walkman influenced.
And the Sony MZE30 followed it in '96
The R55 was a '98 release.
Absolutely. In fact, there was a camcorder that wrote to MD.
It was a network attached device that could stream data directly from itself over IP.
Peep the different MD data logos
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Were minidisks strictly an Audio format? Could they be used for ROM data?
The Minidisc data versions were also offered in 4 track versions for home musicians. I remember wanting one before home computer based recording was viable.
They were also incompatible with regular audio MDs. I think there was an 8 track version by yamaha but similar devices from Roland with hard disk drives killed these off pretty quickly.
"The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013."
What? Over here in the UK mini disks didn't get 'hot' until about... 1998? That's when I remember most people suddenly jumping on the mini disc bandwagon, for whatever brief time period.
screw all you guys! I never had an MD player - they seemed exorbitantly expensive and I was fine between my mix tapes and discman..
..however..
when this thing came out I completely lost my mind
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32MB onboard, with a slot that could accept an extra 32MB. You connected it to your PC thru a printer port interface device, and it took several minutes to upload maybe about 15 songs in total (128 KBPS)
And the thing was so horribly cheaply made that if it got even gently nudged, the flimsy-plastic battery pack cover would shoot open and launch it's AA out.
It was a godawful piece of garbage in hindsight, but truly the beginning of a revolution. It blew my mind that I could DL music from an FTP site, and play the songs thru my car's stereo while I drove or just while I was walking to work...
"kids today will never understand how good they have it!"
(sorry for thread derail)