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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by salamandersauce on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:27AM (#27484334)
Not everywhere. UK was the second best selling region after Japan. And while you can still buy new blank MDs, you can still buy new tape and tape decks too. They all suck but you can.

In Canada I never saw one outside a store, never saw a prerecorded MD album even in a store. I knew a lot of people who had portable CD players before MP3 players took off.

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Re:The MiniDisc: the failure of a forgotten format (2020) by TacticalCoder on Saturday June 12, 2021 @12:24PM (#27485488)
Indeed. I was in Belgium and was a MD user but they weren't that big in Belgium. France neither IIRC. I was into it because I had family in Japan bringing me the goodies on every visit (blank discs, portable players, etc.).
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