All SONY Portable MiniDisc series history of the 1992+2006

[@AlanJan_UK_49]

Thanks. My portable MD is : MZ R91 which I love. My Sony MDS Deck is MDS JB 940 which I'll try and replace as I broke it. I always LOVE my MD's on a plane. Fantastic sound !

[@alexmelendezbeltran]

The best quality sound ever. I have my MZ-R700 and I love it, nothing better!! thanks for this video.

[@Synthematix]

Best format ever made

[@stephenmortimer1653]

Awesome format, far better sound and build quality than iPods. It should never have been abandoned by Sony after all the development work they carried out. I still have and regularly use four full sized Sony decks and around 40 Sony portables including LP2, LP4 and Hi-MD variants. The Sonic Stage software often gets criticised but thankfully I have had few problems using it. Long live MD.

[@EllasPOSEiDON]

Slightly better than mp3 or aac but still worst than CD. The format lived as long as it should. Period. Better quality format (flac) and memory based players won the market.

[@username-tq9ke]

wtf ipods have a lot better bulid quality. walkmans are mostly made from one material, metal or plastic, while ipods are aluminum, stainless steel and polished plastic

[@ianz9916]

@@username-tq9ke They really don't. How many iPods have batteries that burst the screens? It is a major hassle to replace a battery in an iPod too requiring spudgers and dumb luck.

[@woofowl2408]

@@EllasPOSEiDON Rubbish, MD was making significant gains in compression quality with ATRAC Type-S, as well as releasing innovations like Hi-MD, which could use lossless files. If development had continued, then FLAC encoding would have been taken advantage of, at least halving the lossless file size (or Sony would have developed a FLAC equivalent). Connectivity with computers also had the potential to be greatly improved. MD was held back by the ineptness of Sony's marketing and pricing, as well as their stupid DRM. All I know is all four of my MD players (2x portables and 2x decks) are still working, while the three memory based players I have owned (2x iPods, 1x Samsung) are all dead from failed screens or hard drives (and bulging batteries).

[@EllasPOSEiDON]

@@woofowl2408 Did I say MD didn't have capability? No. It had, but It didn't reach its peak. We can speak theoreticals but what matters is what really happened. MD never had cd quality so it was always worst than CD. Evidence is out there. The players, the tools, the discs can all be in tip top shape, I got it. But they didn't represent good quality.

[@mike3584]

Wonderful, thank you so much for creating this! These minidisc machines are amazing pieces of technological artistry. One small suggestion would be to credit the *excellent* music used in the description.

[@ComeJesusChrist]

I have ten or eleven different models from this list, some of them in three or four different colours. I am not normal. These are very likeable and beautifully built machines. They look futuristic, but with an obvious level of nostalgia. It’s nice to have a physical format and not to use a computer or smart device to listen to music.

[@_berskyboy]

I'm getting my first one from eBay soon. What are good ways to store the MiniDiscs? When I look at them they are still so futuristic looking. Like something out of a spy movie!

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

Mz-b100 amazing still even today in 2023. Just brilliant so many applications

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

I love MD player. They were important to me in my youth and teen years. I got a good one which was then stolen by a drug addict selling it for drugs.. only last year, almost 20 years later I got one again out of Nostalgia and I love the thing. I got a MZ-R500 for 30€ but it was so bulky, runs with a single 1.5v battery which is impressive but the bulkiness really annoyed me. So I got a Sony MZ-R300 with remote in pristine condition with charger for 90€. Immediately bought 3 of these flat rechargable batteries for it on amazon for 5€ each. Now due some luck/unluck I got 2 more. I wanted to buy a big MD player for my stereo but transit with UPS damaged the display.. so as a replacement I got a KENWOOD DMC-G7R (didnt even know Kenwood made MD players!) and a MZ-R55 in good condition with working remote (thanks to the batteries that one will work as well. And I got a ton of MDs still from back in the days partially.. Now I have the Kenwood working as my Stereo. The pristine one I use for when I'm listening to relax at home or record via the optical cable. The MZ-R500 is being used in my car which is just a fantastic feeling... I don't know what it is but self-recorded MDs feel so much better than just listening to stuff on my phone.. I drive 50000km a year so I can make a lot of MDs... I still have the craziest MDs.. books on them.. radio dramas... mixtapes.. best off.. and the quality is so much better even than I remember... God I love these devices.. I really should've gotten one again asap but well everyone was so into MP3 players and I bought into that hype... and on the other hand not having had one for so long only makes it all the more enjoyable now that I have them again.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

I'M pretty impressed by the very old ones. I had no clue they came out as early as 1992. Thank you for this awesome video!

[@kosmas173]

incredible story!

[@gleisonnascimento2048]

Mine is a MZ NE410. Enjoing it just now!

[@darioprime]

as am i, with mine

[@wowego]

Thank you! Great to see this that way. I have a couple of those including the last one MZ-RH1. Love the MD!

[@gojira45]

Waiting for long time for content of this type. Maybe you're "a new one". Keep up with the good work ;-)

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

Thank for your support👍

[@user-kc1tf7zm3b]

@@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627 There is no need to append an ‘s’ to the end of the year. e.g., ‘1998s’. This is poor punctuation. If a unit was released in 1999, just state the year as 1999. If you are uncertain of the year, but you believe the year to be around 2000, describe it as: 2000(?).

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

@@user-kc1tf7zm3b Thanks for your advice .

[@IncognitoChild]

It makes me really sad watching this because this was Sony at the height of its innovative and creative digital powers era (CD,MD,SACD,DVD,DAT,BLU-RAY) I started my journey at the beginning with the MZ1 followed by MZR3. In the middle with MZE75 and then at the end with MZ-NH1 and MZ-RH10 & MZ-RH1❤ I think you've solved a 30-year mystery for me. I had two MZ1 both would produce disc errors when trying to record past 60mins onto a 74 minute disc - I noticed you stated in your summary that it will play back 74 minutes but only record 60!😯 If only a few of those "home market" machines had made it into Europe and the UK 😭

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

Two different MDs MDW-60/74 min

[@Cjklllllllllllllllllllll]

Beautiful MD ❤

[@jolebole-yt]

The amount of technology, design and innovation Sony did just with the MD is unbelievable. Companies like Apple nowadays produce the same device for 15yrs and barely change anything on them. Its amazing how even after 20+ years there are still MD players and disks available so we can enjoy them. What new electronic device that you buy now is gonna last 25yrs?

[@KS-gv8jy]

Got a few of these great format use it to this day including in the car a proper head unit quality became so good that only top end systems could tell and by the time hi md came quality was better than CD as it could record in pcm

[@mariuszadamczyk7766]

With so many MD lovers popping out on the market and the old users still present vastly around the globe, I do hope SONY will come to the conclusion of reviving the device. Especially so that the best proof of this device longevity is the very fact Mini Discs are still produced…. Nintendo revived some of its products and it was sold out… SONY will hopefully follow soon…

[@jamiewickens2996]

Just got a Sony my n910 lives on

[@BABYGODZILLA2009]

I pray for this almost every day, that Sony will revive this format, Came across this format when I went to UK as a student in 2000, bought a Sharp minidisc portable with a remote which also had a display bought it brand new for 160 GBP. Needed a portable sound device since I had to take 2 busses and 3 trains to get to my University, amazed by the device and the sound quality, i started to exploring. I bought so many discs and recorded on them. Hard to find good Quality machines these days. I came across a Yamaha MD4 in mint condition. Also bought a Sony MDS-JE 920 few weeks ago for insane price of $250 from Japan and its on its way to me. How I wish Sony would bring this format back, never a fan of digital media, always loved physical formats such as MD's, DATS and Cassettes.

[@IncognitoChild]

I'm confident that if Sony produced an ES hi-MD home deck it would sell out. Sony we need a resto-mod division for all the failed OLED based MD screens and battery sticks - that make some of these units inoperable without.🙏🙂

[@rommelligon8244]

I love sony

[@AlTheEngineer]

Nicely done, thank you for this, I noticed MZ-N520 is missing from the list, its not very popular I guess!

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

MZ-N520 2004y 13.15 min

[@AlTheEngineer]

@@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627I guess I didn't notice! Thank you.

[@paglababa9639]

not only sony but also all big audio company use around 1990 beautiful Music analyzer but present time nobody use THIS

[@vampyrelycan99]

Sad... So sad...... Time cleansing is indeed BRUTAL

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

cherish every day

[@cacadodo666]

Beautiful😍😍😍🥰🥰

[@sowram]

I have a net MD and HiMD.Old.Many times not working.But format and sound quality under 48000 sampling is un parallel.

[@shirl6135]

Wasn’t the Qualia just a concept idea or did one come out?

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

Q017-MD1 Launched in June 2004 for about $1,700 .The world's most expensive that year.

[@thejoojooman6538]

Really good video dude. 👍🏾

[@brokensun100]

Got one of these, MZ-1, can only run it on mains now as battery died yonks ago.

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

Can use DC 10.5V plug

[@MJYMUSIC]

Love sony md🩷

[@toropiga69]

Спасибо

[@cDjShaman]

SUPER!!!

[@2626sylver2626]

Wow 👏

[@ervinmartinez7289]

El mio es el MZ-R37 APRIL 1999 Y SIGUE NITIDO AUN 😎😎

[@alxmurillo]

Awesome!!

[@mattcornell]

inspiring!

[@jktu_hi-md]

Спасибо! Очень наглядно!)

[@archilo8008]

Hi, Your videos use a lot of images from my website, but I don't know about them, , and video not indicate the source. it's feel me uncomfortable.

[@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627]

Hi! Sorry I didn't know the pictures were from you, I was just sharing the history. Or I can suggest that the pictures are from what you provided.

[@archilo8008]

@@pleasetakecareoftheearth7627 OK, You should marked cite source information. And don't use lots of images from my website again.

[@arnoldschwarzer4344]

Ich vermisse md Walkman

[@traflo]

this is Sony

[@lenovohp2]

mz n707

[@tomaszhowaniec5409]

HIMD should be defauld audio format. CD's was always kinda "trash".

[@rodrigosanchez3150]

who has the bluetooth phones minidisc? 😁😁

[@SerafimSvarovskiy]

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