November 1992 · Peripheral
Sony MiniDisc (1992)
Sony's recordable mini optical disc, launched as a cassette replacement.
Announced September 1992 and shipped in November 1992 in Japan, December in Europe and North America. ATRAC compression cut a CD's 1.4 Mbit/s to 292 kbit/s. In 1993 MD Data stored 140 MB, a computer variant.
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Facts
- Date
- November 1992
- Kind
- Peripheral: Storage drive
- Maker or publisher
- Sony
- Platforms
- DOS
- Capacity
- 60 to 80 min audio
- Compression
- ATRAC
- MD Data
- 140 MB
- Connection
- Proprietary (audio); MD Data later
- Works with
- DOS
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