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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by megablast on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:05AM (#27482935)
Pfft. Where is this true outside of Japan??

And don’t messed this up themselves by not allowing you to do a digital copy from md devices, since they’d just bought a music studio.

Also, rather than use mp3 like everyone else, they created there own format.

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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by yftsui on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:15AM (#27482988)
In east Asia, it is true that it holds the high end Walkman market till at least 2003. People see MP3s as cheap plastic toys until iPod and iRiver took off.
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