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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by vladvasiliu on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:39AM (#27483100)
> MiniDisc was a huge success for Sony, and was the winner of the tape-replacement format war in virtually every country - except the USA

Well, don't know about "virtually", but in Europe I only know one person who had one, and I don't remember seeing any on the street / bus / metro.

I remember people having tape walkmans, then portable CD players for a short while, than massively switching to MP3 players when they became available, probably because CD players were extremely unpractical. I used to have an MP3-capable CD player, which kind of mitigated the problem, but it was still not great.

I remember looking at minidisc players at the time, and the MP3 CD looked much more practical to load with music and also much cheaper, so I went with that.

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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by rualca on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:42PM (#27486963)
> Well, don't know about "virtually", but in Europe I only know one person who had one, and I don't remember seeing any on the street / bus / metro.

I owned a couple of portable minidisc players in the 90s, one of which was stolen. I recall that they were relatively expensive when compared with cassette players, but they were not that rare.

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