muelltonne@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoThe End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Modelsobsoletesony.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Modelsobsoletesony.substack.commuelltonne@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareatomicpoet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoThe format never made it big in Canada so I was oblivious. But I still have many Walkman models, and I love them.
minus-squarereddig33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoIt probably would have dominated the market for a good while if Sony hadnt taken so long to ship mini disk storage drives for computers.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days agoSony also could have let them play mp3s. The last thing you wanted to do with a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 was transcode it to another lossy format. But nobody was sharing atrac files.
The format never made it big in Canada so I was oblivious.
But I still have many Walkman models, and I love them.
It probably would have dominated the market for a good while if Sony hadnt taken so long to ship mini disk storage drives for computers.
Sony also could have let them play mp3s. The last thing you wanted to do with a poorly encoded 128kbps mp3 was transcode it to another lossy format. But nobody was sharing atrac files.