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Title: Remembering the MiniDisc: The best thing that never happened to your music Post by: HCK on March 12, 2018, 04:05:20 pm Remembering the MiniDisc: The best thing that never happened to your music
The cruelest truth in technology is that being better doesn't always mean being the winner – or even surviving at all. Almost 20 years ago my uncle gave me one of the best pieces of technology I've ever owned, a product that still fetches nearly $200 on eBay despite the fact that the format it's built on has been dead for years. Before the iPod, before smartphone-based media players – heck, before smartphones themselves – there was the MiniDisc player, a new generation of Walkman. The disc that gave the player its name offered the same amount of song time as a CD, but occupied less than half the space in the hand. It also boasted a durable plastic casing to protect against scratches, and it supported a shock memory technology that made vibration-based "skipping" virtually impossible. Oh, and in a world where rewritable CDs had yet to go mainstream, MiniDiscs were also rewritable. There's plenty that MiniDisc got wrong, from its high prices to i... Source: Remembering the MiniDisc: The best thing that never happened to your music (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/BCPIXQSk6TQ/remembering-minidisc-best-thing-never-happened-your-music) |