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ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fake4000@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s actually a compact disc compared to the previous laser disc. Image

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  • Chocrates@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I finally got rid of my laserdiscs last year. My player broke years before and all the movies I had, I had blue rays of or could get on streaming. It was hard to justify toting around 20lbs of movies I couldn’t play

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• Godort@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is, actually.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dang people don’t know about GameCube anymore?

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    • Godort@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those are Mini DVDs. Totally different technology.

      You’re right though, Mini CDs also exist, but were much rarer.

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Minidiscs are why every optical drive had a little divot for the smaller size. I only ever saw 2 disks in 30 years

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Minidiscs were different, they’re a proprietary Sony tech that was huge in Japan but never really took off in the US. That divot is for plain old small CDs.

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  • dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I ran into about five, not including game cube games.

    I think one of them was bionicle related

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the ones ive seen were all little driver disks that came with some peripheral

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  • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s what I was referring to as a joke. Lol

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