MiniDisc
Also known as MD, Mini Disc, Mini-Disc, MiniDisc Player
thumb|The Sony MZ1, the first MiniDisc player, released in 1992.
Key facts
- Storage medium.name
- MiniDisc
- Storage medium.logo
- MiniDiscLogo.svgclass=skin-invert
- Storage medium.image
- TDK MiniDisc and Duracell Ultra M3 20070320.jpg
- Storage medium.caption
- MiniDisc by TDK, with AA battery for scale
- Storage medium.type
- Magneto-optical disc
- Storage medium.encoding
- ATRAC
- Storage medium.capacity
- 60, 74, and 80 minutes
- Storage medium.read
- 780 nm semiconductor laser diode
- Storage medium.write
- Magnetic field modulation
- Storage medium.owner
- Sony
- Storage medium.use
- Audio storage
- Storage medium.extended from
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Market history
- Design
- Physical characteristics
- Differences from cassette and CDs
- Audio data compression
- Anti-skip
- Operation
- Copy protection
- Format extensions
- MD Data
- MD Data2
- MDLP
- NetMD
- Hi-MD
- Recording and transfer modes
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|The Sony MZ1, the first MiniDisc player, released in 1992.
MiniDisc (MD) is a discontinued erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio.