Digital recording, but inferior to CD or DAT as it compresses the Audio.
The digital home recording format that beat DCC in the race to become the next generation recording format to replace compact cassette. It uses a 64mm disc contained in a protective plastic case that can record up to 74 minutes of digital stereo audio. Recordings can be enhanced by adding text information alongside the audio to display track title, artist and any other information you want. Text is displayed on the screen at the front of the deck. Prerecorded discs are read by an optical laser in a similar way to CD, while blank discs are recorded magnetically using a laser and read optically.
magnetic medium like a computer disc launched as a recordable competitor to audio CD and expected to be launched for digital uses in the mid-90s
6cm magneto-optical re-writable disc format developed by Sony for audio and data storage. MiniDiscs can store 74 minutes of compressed stereo audio.
A small 2.5" compact disc introduced by Sony in 1992 capable of recording up to 74 minutes of CD-quality stereo programming. Mix - 1) To combine several audio channels into a single one. 2) To blend two different music programs by creating a smooth transition from one to the other.
MD: a compact digital audio disc from Sony that comes in read-only and rewritable versions. Introduced in late 1993, the MiniDisc has been popular in Japan. The read-only 2.5in disc stores 140MB compared to 650MB on a CD, but holds the same 74 minutes worth of music due to Sony's Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) compression scheme, which eliminates inaudible portions of the signal.
Sony's 64mm disc that can record up to 74 minutes of sound. Looks like a mini computer disc but works optically, like CD, on prerecorded discs, or magneto-optically in the case of blank software.
A record/playback system developed by Sony using a small silver disc as software and a data reduction technology known as ATRAC. Seen by many as a rival to Philips' Digital Compact Cassette. MiniDisc is incompatible with CD since it is a magneto-optical record/playback format.
A recordable digital format. A small disc framed within a thin, plastic casing a little smaller than the computer 3 ½" floppy-disc. The MiniDisc is popular for creating personal mixes to be played on portable MiniDisc players.
Minidisc is a relatively new digital media, out for about 8 years now. It is a 2.5" square rewritable disc in a cartridge, so it's smaller than a CD, allows you to write to it many times over, and is better protected from scratches and whatnot. It holds 74 minutes of audio, the same as a CDR, by way of a dynamic, psycho-acoustic compression algorithm called ATRAC. ATRAC attempts to determine, in real-time, what frequencies the human ear should not be able to hear and eliminates them, making the file small enough to fit on the disc. MD's use a magneto-optical phase-shift technique to make them re-writable - similar to CDRW.
Optical Disc format for recording music.
(MD) Sony's new data-reduced, small-disc, digital format.
64mm optical disc format developed by Sony. New Hi-MD technology has seen disc capacity jump to 1gb.
Magnetic digital disc storage that most commonly encompasses up to 80 minutes of ATRAC audio, but can also be used for video, and computer data. MDLP: Higher audio compression technology to store up to 320 minutes on a single MD. Net MD: Transfer music to MD at up to 32x speed with a USB connection.
