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What (who) is minidisc - definition

MAGNETO-OPTICAL STORAGE MEDIUM

Mini-Disc; Minidisc; NetMD; Mini disc; Net MD; Mini Disc; Sony Minidisc; HiMD; Sony MiniDisc; 💽; Sony MZ-1; MiniDiscs

minidisc

¦ noun a disc having a format similar to a small CD but able to record sound or data as well as play it back.

minidisc

A minidisc is a small compact disc which you can record music or data on. (TRADEMARK)

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Mini Disc

<storage, music> A music medium designed by Sony as a portable replacement for music Compact Discs. In 1994 Sony announced a data version which can hold 140 MB or about 100 MB using error correction. These will be competitive with 128 MB magneto-optical disks. Mini Discs may be either a re-writable or mass-produced read-only type. Sony have also announced a standard data format. The transfer rate is similar to CD-ROM which is slow compared to the current magneto-optical drives (which are similar to an old hard disk, with writing noticeably slower than reading). Pre-recorded read-only Mini Discs can be mass manufactured on a modified CD press - this and the standard format mean it could take off as a software distribution medium. An article in the December 1994 PCW quotes access times of about 300 ms and data transfer rate of about 150 kb/s (i.e. about single spin CD rate). (1994-12-13)

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MiniDisc

MiniDisc (MD) is an erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, and later, 80 minutes of digitized audio.

Sony announced the MiniDisc in September 1992 and released it in November of that year for sale in Japan and in December in Europe, North America, and other countries. The music format was based on ATRAC audio data compression, Sony's own proprietary compression code. Its successor, Hi-MD, would later introduce the option of linear PCM digital recording to meet audio quality comparable to that of a compact disc. MiniDiscs were very popular in Japan and found moderate success in Europe; although it was designed to be the successor of the cassette tape, it did not manage to mass replace it globally.

By March 2011 Sony had sold 22 million MD players. Sony has ceased development of MD devices, with the last of the players sold by March 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

Examples of use of minidisc

1. Miss Digital Compact Cassette 1''0s: Rival to MiniDisc, compatible with cassette players.

2. Miss at first, now a Hit Dataplay 2002: a mini–MiniDisc with copy protection.

3. Miss MiniDisc 1''0s: digital replacement for cassette tapes, never took off commercially.

4. He produces a minidisc recorder, with which he intends to tape the interview.

5. Last week, thieves broke in to Mr Abberley‘s Vauxhall Vectra and stole a 300 minidisc player.