In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab at the Sony Corporation’s sprawling audio campus ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What Hi-Fi? January 1993 Back Issues The January 1993 issue of What Hi-Fi? proves to be a fascinating insight into the world of ...

It's no exaggeration to say that the Compact Disc (CD) dominated the '90s. It's really a technology of the '80s, but the '90s is when the format peaked, and when its most likely threat arose, and ...

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Sony announced plans to discontinue the MiniDisc player nearly two years ago following a surprising 21 year run. The company is just now getting around to putting the final nail in the coffin of the ...

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Twenty years ago this month, Sony unveiled the technology they hoped would transform our relationship with music. Cassettes were too flimsy, fading and snapping as time passed. CDs were for listening, ...

RIP MiniDisc, we hardly knew ye. Yes, Sony recently sounded the death knell for the digital format (first introduced in 1992), announcing that the final MiniDisc players would ship in March. In many ...

Some people still make telephone calls from a red box next to the village cricket ground, some love an all-day slow-cooker (“Just toss in the ingredients and leave!”) and some swear by the MiniDisc.