MiniDisc was first conceived in the mid-1980s but wasn’t commercially available until a decade later. The company went head-to-head with Philips’ Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) and won the initial battle (the DCC was discontinued in 1996). Sony came up with the MiniDisc after the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format failed to take off with consumers.
Transferring music from your computer to a MiniDisc recorder is also now easier than ever. Cassettes and vinyl are cool again, so what about MiniDisc? Sony’s pint-sized digital format hit the market in 1992, but failed to make much of a splash until around a decade later.ĭespite ultimately losing market shares to flash-based MP3 players, MiniDisc has seen something of a revival.
