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I came across this video recently uploaded a few days ago.
Great summary, history and interesting information about the MiniDisc format, well put together video I think deserves more views.
(Video is 38 minutes long so could be considered a short-documentary)
If you are confused about MiniDisc, within popular culture in the beginning of the movie "The Matrix", where Neo is in his bedroom switching "Data discs" on his computer, that was a Minidisc.
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If you remember using MiniDisc then you will have made it through the video.
Bought a few MiniDisc Players/Recorders many years ago when they were on sale, so must have been on the way out at the time.
I owned multiple Sony MiniDisc Walkman's, everything from ones with recording capability which were ~1.5cm thick, to one with only Playback capability but were around ~9mm thick (I remember bending this model while it was playing, it was made of extremely thin silver aluminium but you could cause it to flex which must have slowed the motor and triggered the Player to skip by running out of it's 6 second buffer).
And I recall the "chewing gum" shaped Li-po battery which had pretty bad battery life to be honest, and then there was the Attachable battery compartment which was a must and would stick onto basically all models via Exposed modular contacts (This only used a single AA battery but the battery life was much much much better than the default "chewing gum" battery).
Even when using the AA battery with the attachable battery case was a great experience, much lighter in weight and more compact than a Discman with much better battery-life (with the AA battery) with the benefit of that buffer so it would never skip the audio unless you forced it to by shaking the Player constantly (MiniDisc owners will remember testing this).
Currently the only surviving MiniDisc component I have is an Onkyo Recorder/Player. It is capable of recording through Toslink (Optical) input, which has the ability to send PCM data straight to the MiniDisc (with a Hi-MD disc you can write a full 16bit 44.1khz CD as an exact copy) with accelerated recording times.
I also found it interesting (from the video) an early MP3 compression algorithm (lossy) file size being ~24 megabytes, which is around present day FLAC (lossless) file sizes (with high/slow encoding).
Great summary, history and interesting information about the MiniDisc format, well put together video I think deserves more views.
(Video is 38 minutes long so could be considered a short-documentary)
If you are confused about MiniDisc, within popular culture in the beginning of the movie "The Matrix", where Neo is in his bedroom switching "Data discs" on his computer, that was a Minidisc.
-
If you remember using MiniDisc then you will have made it through the video.
Bought a few MiniDisc Players/Recorders many years ago when they were on sale, so must have been on the way out at the time.
I owned multiple Sony MiniDisc Walkman's, everything from ones with recording capability which were ~1.5cm thick, to one with only Playback capability but were around ~9mm thick (I remember bending this model while it was playing, it was made of extremely thin silver aluminium but you could cause it to flex which must have slowed the motor and triggered the Player to skip by running out of it's 6 second buffer).
And I recall the "chewing gum" shaped Li-po battery which had pretty bad battery life to be honest, and then there was the Attachable battery compartment which was a must and would stick onto basically all models via Exposed modular contacts (This only used a single AA battery but the battery life was much much much better than the default "chewing gum" battery).
Even when using the AA battery with the attachable battery case was a great experience, much lighter in weight and more compact than a Discman with much better battery-life (with the AA battery) with the benefit of that buffer so it would never skip the audio unless you forced it to by shaking the Player constantly (MiniDisc owners will remember testing this).
Currently the only surviving MiniDisc component I have is an Onkyo Recorder/Player. It is capable of recording through Toslink (Optical) input, which has the ability to send PCM data straight to the MiniDisc (with a Hi-MD disc you can write a full 16bit 44.1khz CD as an exact copy) with accelerated recording times.
I also found it interesting (from the video) an early MP3 compression algorithm (lossy) file size being ~24 megabytes, which is around present day FLAC (lossless) file sizes (with high/slow encoding).
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