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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by zinekeller on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:56AM (#27482554)
> it definitely wasn’t a ‘huge success’ in the Netherlands.

Fair enough, the land of Philips :P

(But in all seriousness, plain CDs were more popular in certain regions in Europe because "why have a different device for music?". It isn't as drastic as in America though, where it is a product that looks like and feels like never released to consumers.)

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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by tinco on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:55AM (#27482892)
I remember wanting a Minidisc player, but they were to expensive. In elementary school we had portable CD players and in highschool I got a MPMan which played mp3s off an 128MB flash card.
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