Sony discontinues MiniDisc Players
Feb 16, 2013 at 12:42PM Recently Sony have announced that they are discontinuing the production of MiniDisc players
Sony has announced that they will stop making MiniDisc players next month (March 2013).
The highly anticipated MiniDisc format was launched in 1992 as the intended replacement for cassette tape. This was around the same time as the ill fated Philips DCC or Digital Compact Cassette (digital recordings on an audio cassette sized fomat compatible with analogue tapes)
MiniDisc has had a surprisingly long run given intense competition in the last few years from MP3 players such as the Apple iPod. It gained a lot of fans for backing tracks, sfx effects playback (due to the text information for easy identification of tracks) and as another generation of Walkman style playback.
Portable MiniDisc players were discontinued in 2011. The company has stated that it will continue to manufacture MiniDisc media.
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