Back in '98, I thought this was gonna be the next big thing

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Sony tried like hell to keep innovating the music industry but it just never worked for them

Some of yall might remember after this they invested in more in just Atrac3 which was basically their data format. I had the CD player that had the digital display on it. The software would like you make folders, genres, all tagged and you could search them using the CD player itself. I had like 50 albums on one disc with West, East, Underground folders and all that

Apple came though and crushed that building completely

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Dreamcast should have been a massive hit.
I loved playing the games they had for it.

Dream cast was destroyed by its own user base. Everyone bought fake games. The ecosystem around the unit collapsed with low software sales. This is one time where we flopped a technology with greed.

 

[MurderToCassette]

Had the joint on the right.....only took one battery, held mad songs, and didn't give af if I dropped it cause it was almost all metal

 

[KFBF]

I wish I still had my MD player. shyt was great.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

I had a discman in 1996 and wanted the MD bookshelf player to complete the cypher

 

[s@n]

I was liked that with hitclips when I was a kid.

Samething with the Hyperscan console. I was like one of the only nikkas with that weak ass gaming console.

From a technology standpoint that’s like comparing a candle to fukking LEDs

 

[parallax]

I bought the blank discs, home player with recorder, the portable joint, then the actual deck for the whip, etc.

I got over 200 mini discs up in the attic that I made over a 4 of 5 yr span.

People would get in the car and be like

I'd be like "yeah, ppl ain't up on this yet"


Ppl never got up on it

both mini and zip discs deserved better. but they both came along as other cheaper easier acceptable rewritable physical media came out. if minidisc had become really popular around the mid 90s it would have been looked at more favorably. especially since people were still recording songs by radio at that point. it would have been the mixtape king

 

[3rdWorld]

You and me both fam. I loved the mini disc era.

Theyre were small, compact and didnt skip..ould re record on them numerous times too.
These should have taken off but the mp3 craze had just hit.

 

[KBtheKey]

Yeah breh I thought they were dope as a child but now they're kinda mid. Looking back it looks like a cheesy flash game.
Which I also liked back in the day so that make sense. Stuff like Dragon Fist 3, Boxhead or those cartoon network flash games.

Dragon fist and boxhead were crack back in the day. And xiao xiao (the cinematic stickman fighting games)

There was a side scrolling shooter with simple graphics that went brazy too

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Dream cast was destroyed by its own user base. Everyone bought fake games. The ecosystem around the unit collapsed with low software sales. This is one time where we flopped a technology with greed.

Makes sense that Talk of brehs getting a Bootleg 2k before Release out the Barbershop would catch up

 

[Mass]

Old head, checking in..............

Back in '98 I was working at an A/V store doing car audio installs and alarms along with home a/v installs. Sony had me hooked on everything they made. MiniDisc was my sales specialty, sold a grip of car units, portables, and home recorders. The ability to make your own recordings, label them, erase them, and reorder them and shock protection plus portability was next level back then.

Fast forward to the last 2 years and I have dove right back into that tech. Friend sold me his Sony MD car head unit, MDX-400, this was a in-dash changer with a magazine that holds 4 MD's, also got ahold of Sony 6-MD car changer, both units have optical outputs to connect to Sony's digital signal processor/crossover, which I also have. I have all the car stuff, 2 portable MD units and 1 home unit. Picked up an old school Sony boombox and Discman. Collection below........

I would build a retro room in my house and that's where I would keep all of this. But other than that......lol. respect though for sure bro!

 

[Diondon]

Always wanted this

I had a Palm Pilot

You couldn't tell me I wasn't a CEO
Today, the whole company is dead

 

[Diondon]

Playstation got the Dreamcast up outta here

 

[⠀X ⠀]

You couldn’t tell me laser disc weren’t the next big thing in home theater. I thought my Uncle was rich when he had the full audio set up with the equalizer in the wood case and the glass door. Watching Jurassic Park on laser disc blew my mind. I remember bragging about being able to see it in surround sound on laser disc at school

Like it was mine.

I’ve been thinking about getting a laserdisc player. Surprisingly, a lot of people still collect and watch them.

 

[ba'al]

Dragon fist and boxhead were crack back in the day. And xiao xiao (the cinematic stickman fighting games)

There was a side scrolling shooter with simple graphics that went brazy too

Oh yeah. StickRPG and Thing Thing Arena some of the others that were fire back in the day.