@obsoletesony I loved my mini disc player!

@obsoletesony wasn't it, though? I loved that they were rewritable. I feel like UMDs would have been even better if they were also RW, but I don't think they were used in anything besides the PSP?

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I think that a fundamental property of Humans, or at least men, is that when you are middle aged or old, stuff from your teens and 20s is cool

Check out my post for the ObsoleteSony free newsletter: Complete Visual Guide to Sony MiniDisc Blank Media (1992-2004).

https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/complete-visual-guide-to-sony-minidisc

@obsoletesony @erbsenzaehlerin omgasp yes 🤩

@obsoletesony MiniDisc was the future, reinvented. They're still around too... just mostly in Japan (where they understand innovation isn't just a new phone every year).

Those were forward looking years, quite a different industry landscape from today.

@obsoletesony fantastic. I loved my #sony mz-rh1 with #oled display and Hi-MD support. They even had PC drives which at the time had the best price to MB ratio of any removal media

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Of course!
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@obsoletesony I used to have some floppies like this. I miss this aesthetic.

@obsoletesony Ah yes. The beginning of unnecessary extra plastic.

Love the early nineties aesthetic. Hate what it did to our landfills and oceans. 😅

@obsoletesony It had terrible DRM built in.

@obsoletesony Weren't they used in Strange Days to "store" video?

@obsoletesony I loved all my minidisc kit!! The recording quality was great!

@obsoletesony Y2K type shit

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@obsoletesony I have two Minidisc players. They can play but don't record anymore. I can't find anyone to repair them in Ireland but I would ship overseas. If anybody knows a repair service, please let me know!

@obsoletesony Honestly. If it werent for Blu-rays (and proprietary hw+sw), these would still go hard to this day.

I feel like a foss version of these that can hold more data can still go hard in 2024.

@obsoletesony those are totally still used to look futuristic in movies

@obsoletesony The minidisc has the coolest history and cyberpunk vibes out of any media format.

@obsoletesony Bright, Colorful, and even Transparent plastics with nice bubbly or glossy UI.

Way better than flat, boring minimalist UI pared with flat, boring black or white hardware.

@obsoletesony This was my era as a radio journalist. I transitioned my newsroom away from muddy sounding, heavy, Marantz cassettes to these Walkman-sized MiniDiscs with pristine audio. Good times!

@obsoletesony I long for a affordable long-term storage medium that has decent capacity.
Even writable DVDs are well on the way of the dodo.

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@obsoletesony Then I discovered how "OpenMG" Jukebox was controlling how I used my music ;-(

@obsoletesony man i had a minidisc walkman. and also some hello kitty minidiscs. totally sad they axed it.

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This is the future I was promised! I was lied to! 😬