In the late 90s my friends used to mock me for not being 'up-to-date'. Whilst I was still buying CDs, they were all buying MDs for their £300 MD portable players. Today, CDs still lead the market in music data storage and sales, but MDs have all but disappeared from the shops. Who's mocking me now? hehe.
2007-03-15 11:00:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
Minidisc is still a great format, and sounds better than CD, the recordings are more natural and less 'clinical' than CD...
the good thing about it is, your precious recordings will stay safe dust free scratch/fingerprint free for ever..
i still use it all the time, fashion has nothing to do with it, you use what you want to use, regardless...
if you can still buy blank minidiscs, then the format is still alive.
2007-03-16 09:43:05 · answer #1 · answered by paulrb8 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a format that gave no more quality than CD meant you had to buy a new machine etc - The CD Rewriters and PCs/Macs with iTunes and then MP3s or similar came along and you could buy make cd compliations really quickly and cheaply. Minidiscs stopped being made as albums and the format had a reinvention for a while with the ability to record in 4LP and it still sound relatively good meaning you could fit about 4 hours onto one disc, but then along comes the iPod and similar iPods can take enough tracks to play for a month and not repeat a song, so the format has all but died out. CDs are still with us as the CD player is cheap widespread and of course DVD players play then as do computers etc.
I do wonder though if in 10 years time CDs will be like Cassettes MiniDisc and Vinyl something for the history books and the only way to get music will be from the net in some format or other!
2007-03-15 18:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by langsteacher 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
MD's are more expensive to make than CDs so alot of companies didnt put much advertisement into them. Technicaly they didnt become obscelete(sp?), they just couldnt get them off the ground. Another big thing was the production of cd players heavily outweighed the production of MDs
2007-03-15 18:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by Bobby the WOOD Heenan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ye i bought a combined mini-disc/cd player/ hi-fi system. biggest mistake i made cost an arm and a leg, mini disc doesn't work, would cost more to get it fixed so better of buying whole new hi-fi. Go back to cd's least you know you will always get your hands on them.
2007-03-15 18:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by x SexySian x 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mini-disc is still in full swing,but its become like an expensive,seperate,upper class music machine.I got a sony 750 from a few years back,and a newer sonydsp/type r...which connects to your pc ect.......f--kin lov em....ste.
2007-03-16 01:06:44 · answer #5 · answered by fox5nyc 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Same thing happened to me, I got one in the end because I had too. Next thing I know I'm uncool because the I pod has come out!
2007-03-15 18:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by Jason 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They just died on on their @rse! (that's the easiest way of saying it but everyone elses answers make my point so why bother typing out all that again?!)
2007-03-15 18:17:19 · answer #7 · answered by samfisher 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
stuff all da modern sh!t
get sum vinyl
2007-03-15 18:03:55 · answer #8 · answered by qwerty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
MP3's killed them off
2007-03-15 18:07:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋