The MiniDisc recorder was in my pants. This was how you bootlegged a concert in 1998—you'd come into the hall with no bag, ready for the pat-down, with a stereo microphone wired up your arms and ...

As of next month, the Sony MiniDisc will be no more. A report by Asahi (via Engadget) says that Sony has stopped producing the portable audio players, which were meant to be a replacement for the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The missing link between the CD Walkman and the iPod, the palm-sized MiniDisc audio format has its loyal fans but was never a big hit.

Sony has announced that it is stopping production of Minidisc recorders and players after 21 years. Most 20 year old audio enthusiasts would be surprised to hear that they were born after the arrival ...

In the long history of recorded media, Sony’s MiniDisc format barely registers as a blip on the timeline. In hindsight, it was doomed from the start—forced to compete with immensely popular CDs and an ...

Sony’s new MZ-RH1 MiniDisc Walkman will feature, for the first time, Mac support, the company acknowledged Thursday. Sony has unveiled the MZ-RH1, a portable player/recorder that Sony is positioning ...

CAN a MiniDisc Walkman rival the iPod? Sony thinks so. After exploiting some intriguing physics to boost the storage capacity of the languishing MiniDisc audio format more than fivefold, the company ...

Inside the new PowerBook It appears that a lucky few are getting their hands on the Titanium PowerBook. Schoun Regan (from Complete Mac Seminars) sent us a photo of the new laptop with its bottom ...

I took my LaCie external Firewire CD-RW drive to pieces today to see if i could disable the noisy fan and noticed, along with the normal IDE and analog audio ports on the back of the drive (it's an ...