LAS VEGAS (CES Booth #N109), Jan. 7, 2004 -Taking the MiniDisc™ a big step forward, Sony today announced its new Hi-MD™ Walkman® digital music players. With Hi-MD technology, users can record up to 45 ...

Just because the Western world has poo poo’d the MiniDisc doesn’t mean Japan is ready to let the dream die quite yet. Sharp has release a new MD player, the MD-DS55 Auvi, in four new colors — ...

''MINIDISCS are obsolete,'' my friend Dave Hoeffel says. ''I only use them because I'm a geek, and because they're the best way to get the recordings I want.'' Saying something is both obsolete and ...

When I mentioned to a co-worker that I was going to have a look at Sony’s new MiniDisc offering, the MZ-M200, he looked at me with a grimace and let me know exactly how he felt about the previous ...

Twenty years ago this month, Sony unveiled the technology they hoped would transform our relationship with music. Cassettes were too flimsy, fading and snapping as time passed. CDs were for listening, ...

Goodbye, MiniDisc, we loved you. Well, perhaps not love, but at least a grudging regard. Unfortunately, grudging regards don't add up to sales, and Sony has decided to axe the MZ-RH1 MiniDisc Hi-MD ...

News that SONY will cease production MiniDisc players, nearly 20 years after it’s introduction, was likely the most you’ve heard about MiniDiscs in a long, long time. The announcement will surely not ...

CAN a MiniDisc Walkman rival the iPod? Sony thinks so. After exploiting some intriguing physics to boost the storage capacity of the languishing MiniDisc audio format more than fivefold, the company ...

A while ago, before I had bought a MiniDisc player/recorder, I saw in a Crutchfield catalog a MiniDisc drive for the computer. I bought a MiniDisc player/recorder last december before the NetMD's were ...