The Tragic End of MiniDisc: Sony's $750 Answer to the CD

If there is a silver disc in a drawer in your house, Sony built it. Then Sony spent fourteen years locking it shut. Two Sonys lived inside one company. One made machines and wanted you to carry your music anywhere. The other owned the recordings, and collected on every copy in existence. Every time those two met over the MiniDisc, the music side won. The ending is recent, and it is the best part. Strangers opened the lock in a browser tab, and nobody from Sony was in the room. If one of those discs is still sealed shut in your house, put the model number in the comments. Somebody in there knows how to open it. #minidisc #sony #retrotech