>it's gonna replace CDs soon
They did for a while.
>>223783403>mfw we will never get kino optical storage in cartridges again
>>223783403minidisc is much larger than tip of thumb
>>223783403>>223783445Why didn't it catch on?
>>223783475too hard for normies to use, the soundstage sofware was dogshiti miss my minidisc :(
>>223783475Mp3 players and the iPod were just around the corner
>>223783475All the perks of a floppy disk with all the downsides of a cd
>>223783475Sony is run by retards.
>>223783475It did for radio stations for a while tho, at least in mine, great quality
You all probably bought Zune's, too
>>223783475Because the PS3 went with Blu-ray, USB sticks improved storage really fast, and things like the ipod and Limewire was far more convenient than having to carry around individual discs, even if smaller.
>>223783475>>223783492>Mp3 players and the iPod were just around the cornerNot really, there was still 6-8 years where it had a theoretical room to grow. CD players were impossible to replace because everybody already used them, music CDs were everywhere, the major hardware issues were already solved and the new technology brought no ground breaking changes.The early MP3 players were crippled by short battery life and low memory capacity. 1 audio CD ripped to mp3 translates to 100- 150 MB. Can't do much with a 128 MB memory card.
>>223783475usb memory sticks and sd cards came out shortly aftert. computer scientist who was in college when they came out and had the first one in my uni
>>223783637people can tell you were a kid during the times you’re talking about
I can be agent M(olester)
>>223783528No idea why zune’s get made fun off desu (no I didn’t have one, too young and too poor for any mp3 player), they’re devices not investments
>>223783403>>223783475They kinda did with the gamecube and you could even play them on the wii. They were pretty soulful
>>223783475>A standard MiniDisc holds 140 MB of general computer dataalso, the reason blu-rays didn't catch on was manufacturing them was a bitch, where one imperfection ruined whole batches
>>223783710he is mostly right and I was 20 in 2001
>>223783528I had a Rio. It could fit like three songs.
>>223783528I had a zen
>>223783748Bluray vs minidisc was never a thing. The mp3 had replaced all music distribution by 2001. “Both” (you) and “he” are morons.
>>223783475Sony pushed too restrictive DRM on it (at least initially) and blank media was expensive compared to blank CDs so for a large part of the format's life it didn't have the two big things CDs had going for them
>>223783528Zune should've won. I never bought one but had a friend in high-school who did and I used it for a week. Better UI, could hold Mp3, Mp4, WMA, had FM radio, wifi, and could connect to the 360 to play music.
>>223783781>Bluray vs minidisc was never a thingI said mostly right. I have no idea why his included this as I agree. It wasn't a thing and is irrelevant. The rest is spot on as, as I said here >>223783667 I was in college at the time working on my comp scio degree and computers at that time still had 1.55 floppy drives and cd dries an that was it. Some of them has those high capacity magnetic disks I forget the name now, they were little cartridges, but the big issue for me was finding that I could actually store my class work on Some people had those re-writable mini disks and they worked but carrying them around in your backpack could easily scratch and damage them. USB sticks came out and I could save an entire semesters of classwork on them, EVERY class I was taking mind you. USB sticks, SD cards and external hard drives made everything else irrelevant
I cannot sanction this buffoonery by sony
>>223783823>1.551.44
>>223783528One of these filled up with Trojans and dogshit quality mp3s
>>223783667Yeah, but what capacity and for what price.1 CD:>70 minutes audio CD>700 MB for mp3 audio CD your average SD (not microSD!) card in early 00s:>64 MByour average compact flash card and USB pendrive in early 00s:>256 MB
>>223783823my dad is also a computer scinetist and was pretty high level manager for a large corporation at the time and when USB sticks came out some vendors gave him some before they even hit the market and he gave me some which is why I was the first person in my school to have them
>>223783528Zune was kino. Apple has been shitty overpriced consumer garbage since 2006
>>223783865>Yeah, but what capacity and for what price.the first one I ever had was 256 and that was a massive amount at the time. More than enough for anything you would use it for. I dont know the price because I got mine fee but they were obviously competitive since they put everything else out of business
>>223783843Based
>>223783843Now THIS was kino
>>223783667>When they first launched in 2000, the starting capacity was 8 MBand besides being slow as hell, they were notorious for completely failing.
>>223783823>high capacity magnetic disks I forget the namezip and jazz drives, which were also late 90s rather than the 00s, son.
>>223783915>usb RAM>slowtell me you are retarded and have no idea what you are talking about with zero effortmy one was 256mb and I still have it to this day and have never lost data on it or any other usb stick I have ever used.
>>223783414In a deterministic future, I will be a runner like Johnny Mnemonic and people will pay large sums of yen to run their data to ensure its integrity. Ai will will be scouring the net for anything of value and truth, the only way to get real data in the future will be through runners like me. The physical disk will come back by necessity.
>>223783414pic?
>>223783918YAH ZIP! that is what I was trying to think of.
>waiting avg 15mins to download a 128kbps song over my 56k modem, only to find it's the completely wrong thing because there wasn't any previewing yet
>>223783843Samsung made the best mp3 player in that period
>>223783940the pic is you imagining my disappointment
>>223783886*1976
>>223783918zip drives were still in production up until 2003 kid
>>223783843kino
>>223783528zune was absolutely better than ipod by a mile. ipod just had the sleeker look, and everyone had a massive boner for "sleek gear" back in 2006
>>223783744you could record 120minutes of audio if you had the patience to play each track.
>>223783963looks like a vape
>>223783934Flash memory is in general less reliable than HDDs and optical drives.If you think it's reliable, you are a fool.Flash memory is very vulnerable wear if there are any frequent write operations, this is why SSDs were so bad in late 00s. Operating systems are always trigger happy when it comes to disk operations.As for passive data storage, flash drives that are not used for a long time, maybe years, maybe a decade, will eventually degrade and get some corrupted data, it's how the transistors work.I got some corrupted data on a 512 MB pendrive from 2007. I inspected it after 10 years, there was a copy of some old stuff, some PDF files got corrupted and impossible to read.I also had a freak incident with a large compact flash card I used once for storage of low quality anime rips. A dozen of files got corrupted, and after an inspection with a hex editor I found out the corrupted files got extra block of zero bytes at the beginning. I was able to compare them against normal files from a HDD backup, you see.
>>223784093is there a reason you are posting a non-sequitur comparing apples to oranges? Neither min discs or flash drives were ever marketed for or used for archiving purposes
>>223783528I had an unbelievably cheap third party mp3 player. No video.
>>223784149>I still have it to this day and have never lost data on it or any other usb stick I have ever used.Just wait my nigga. One day you will have a big surprise.
>>223784010lol. lmao.
>>223784273>I spend ever day thinking about how heartbroken I will be if I lose some school work from 2004
DAYUM
>>223784176>$29.99 mp3 player>32mb
>>223783403Infinite nostalgia for that weird in-between phase post-broadband internet and pre smartphone. I was 8-15 when that era hit so it was timed perfectly
>>223783637these things were dead years before bluray became a topic
>>223783528nah
>>223784273Who are you quoting?
>>223783962send me a pm first next time
>>223784313
>>223784273data is a toxic asset
>>223784418Anon it’s like saying blackberries were still in production in 2007
>>223784430https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbhrpeyJEpY
>>223784418>Zip drivesHoly fuck I remember my dad getting one of these in the 90s and talking about how it was the future.
>>223783345what a coincidence,I've been watching pieces of this movie in particular on Jewtube everyday
>>223784418I switched directly from floppy drives to CD burners, completely skipping the Zip drives and LS-120. What kind of joys and wonders did I miss?
>>223784503>but muh efriendfuck off
>>223784532wtf you on about? take your meds retard
>>223784545>post efriend video>get called on it>m-meds
>>223784531Not much. Zip was always trash.
>>223784576you are a legit retard. begone retard
it sort of worked for a while these things were everywhere in the early 00s
>>223783403Minidiscs were really cool, one of my friends used to have them. I haven't thought about them in a very long time. I should be annoying and get really into them.
>>223784604anon you wanted your efriend to speak for you and got called on it. not much grounds to assert intellectual superiority.
>>223784617Was just trying to recall those pieces of shit. Total fad that couldn’t even play full songs yet bitches were walking around with dozens of the things hanging off their backpacks.
>>223784671I have never watched a single video on that video on that channel before. I am not familiar with your terminally online schizo lingo for droolers. It is is just an interesting video on the history of the zip drive. If you dont want to watch it then dont you fucking retard. I really dont give a fuck about diatribes and buzzwords on the topic
>>223784693Sure anon. Suuure.
>>223783718Because ipods were coolIts like air jordansAdiddas or sketchers were perfectly fine for grade school basketballBut kids who had the air jordans thought they played better
>>223784679yeah they only sold boys band crap to little girls but they sold millions
>>223784731If you think you play better, you do play better.
