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Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Right as I'm getting into minidisc too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I think the data variant stores 1GB... good enough for archiving invoices and the like...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can get some pretty cheap used ones. At less than $2 each.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah but the thing that helps keep them at $2 is a supply of new ones

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Eyyy yes! I just picked up an MZ-N505 a few months ago! It's been great at work to quickly start music without staring at my phone for 5 minutes first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just getting the hang of cassettes !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"Press Play on tape."

(makes lunch)

"File found. Loading..."

(takes a bath, goes for a walk, reads a book...)

Ah the memories...