Well, if vinyl could come back, I suppose MiniDiscs can too.
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neuromorph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Minidiscs would endure and crypto would fail…I still believe both will bw true in the end…
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
neuromorph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There wasnt a big enough user base to hit that nostalgia rebound
I still have my MD player and a fee blank disc’s that im saving for special occasions.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I like minidiscs, even if I’m too young to remember any popularity of them, I remember discs for Sony PSP which are similar in idea, an optical medium with protection like of diskettes.
And optical discs are not such a common good to think a protection case is too expensive or something. They get scratches.
But there’s another moment - optical discs also degrade with time faster than one would think when they were common. Mostly. Some are good.
About cryptocurrencies … I don’t believe that actually. That is, I believe many of them are scams. Or, one can say, very weird fundraising schemes for their creators. But there are uses, as one can easily feel when being in a sanctioned country.
neuromorph@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yea. The degredation of optical is a major reason its not viable for longterm data storage. But its something like 25 years. Considering people hold onto vinyl and and CDs for that long or longer. Along with the casing… MiniDiscs seemed like the next big step for audiophile. They had lossless recording and are to this day one of the best ways to record live audio.