Panasonic mini disk

i have some mini disk in my collection. 4 Panasonics and the rests are Sony.
I would like to share the pictures of my Panasonic mini disks with you.

Panasonic SJ-MJ500-p is the most beautiful mini disk inn my opinion. It comes with illuminated speakers

 

Panasonic SJ-MJ55 also comes with a detachable mini disk player

 

3 SJ-MJ55. One brand new and 2 used

 

The days before Bluetooth speakers!!

 

Never liked portable md players, they have a very weak sound if you use them with better headphones but iv always liked the looks of this one, looks very nice, congrats

 

I know, the problem i have is difficulty on recording the media on them. the old software is not compatible with new OS (windows/Mac). So i record md with optical cable by connecting md recorder to CD player.

anyway, i agree with you , thanks for the comment

 

This one is a recorder with line-in option that makes mini disk recording an easy job
Panasonic mini disk SJ-MR220-S

 

Panasonic mini disk SJ-MJ30

 

Panasonic SJ-MJ100

 

I agree that the styling is really good. I am surprised that according to a press release it dates from Oct 2005 which
doesn't seem that long ago to me. I don't have any catalogues that new to see if Minidiscs were still popular then.

The transparent panels and colour remind me of the original iMac which started the craze for transparent plastics
but was quite a bit earlier in 1998.

 

The remote can be obtained separately :
https://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/t770338389?conversionType=search_suggest

But I don't recommend the base at all since the quality of speakers are not good. If you decide to get the speaker let me know I might have extra to send you.
Overall, its better to use this unit separately with headphones and use its button instead of remote.

 

I had only one MD Panasonic presented to me by my friend @Boodokhan .... just a few months before everything went into DigitalHeaven... The pains of recording were above my skills, never figured how it sounds compared to CD... must be the same?

 

Probably the same quality of CD the way I listen to CDs
But for sure lower quality than CD the way you listen to CDs
So depends on your CD player, and headphone.
Once this pandemic is over I will get you a better MD player/ recorder to try it yourself.
So expect a visit in few months.

 

I think what they liked was the portability, skip free playback compared to early CD and the fact that you could record.
Have you watched Techmoan's bargain package from Japan ?

After a while he realises they are all lost property from trains
If you have time to kill there is a 73 minute version

 

Reading the description he says that with a bit of maintenance he got over half of them working.
As for why they weren't promoted more in the USA that was probably down to the big music companies as explained in his original Minidisc video.

Only when Apple offered them a significant cut from the iTunes profits did the music companies go away from the idea that the only way to make money was by selling physical media. Of course by then they weren't getting anything from the likes of Napster where many people (including my Boss at the time) were getting their music.

I'm still not a fan of services like Spotify. The signature of a Tapeheads member sums it up for
"Spotify is killing music and it's perfectly legal"
I suppose you could qualify that with unless you think music is nothing but Ed Sheeran.

 

I may add that MD would have killed CDs AND cassettes whatever the price for the crowd to which I belonged then (with mantra that Digital is Digital, and zeroes&ones are all the same) but copyright protection Dudes made it difficult for the end-users and they won then. I still remember that even for the iPod you had to buy Wadia adapter to be able to get its digital stream into a better DAC, I bought one as soon as it came out... Fun Times when SACDs and DVD-A fought and then phased out until HD Tracks and computer audio saved us from MP3
I wonder: how many minutes of uncompressed music can be recorded onto one MD? Also, by default, is it compressed on pre-recorded MDs?