So Long, Minidisc?
Engadget highlights a Minidisc discussion forum thread that speculates on the future of the MD format, based on Sony’s corporate doings (or un-doings, or corporate restructures)
Is it finally the end of the road for the oft-maligned MiniDisc? It certainly seems that way, judging from the recent activity at the MiniDisc Community Forums. Though not exactly a hotbed of anti-MiniDisc activity, one member points out that at Sony’s recent corporate strategy meeting there was no mention of the format, and it was also a no-show in the company’s annual report, other than as an example of a dying format.
If MiniDisc is going to be abandoned, it’s sad. 15 years is the lifetime of the product cycle, according to the post that kicks of the speculation on the MiniDisc Community Forum thread. The small size and convenience and sound quality for field recordings has so much going for it. But this is the way of digitality. this is what
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on October 05, 2005 in
• Audio
• Audio: Hardware
• Digitality
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