The Mini-Disc never caught on in the U.S. But during the 1990s, the format did in its native Japan, where MD isn’t yet dead. Launching in 1991, MD was the coolest format. It was like a compact disc, ...

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be ...

In 1992, when the quirky new music format was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer electronics In 1992, when the quirky new music format was introduced, Sony could do no wrong in consumer ...

Sony is bringing MiniDisc back from the grave, soil between its toes and a blade between its teeth. The MZ-RH1 (pictured, attached to a heart monitor) is set for release this month. You might have ...

Though you may have completely forgotten it existed, the MiniDisc was actually pretty revolutionary when it was introduced in 1992. It used magneto-optical technology and behaved a little like a hard ...

Hot on the heels of the most successfu storage mediums of all time -- MiniDisc and Zip disks -- Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a ...