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Portable MiniDisc players to be phased out
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 11 July 2011
Sony Electronics has announced it will stop making MiniDisc Walkman devices, as the 1990s audio format continues it albeit much slower than you might have expected demise in the age of digital and mega-capacity digital music players.
There is currently only one portable MiniDisc player on the market, and that too is about to be canned. Consumers still using MiniDisc devices will still be able to buy actual MiniDiscs, while a non-portable MiniDisc player will still be manufactured in some markets.
The downsizing of the MiniDisc range follows an announcement by Sony last year that cassette Walkmans would stop being manufactured in the US (where apparently some were still being sold), although they are still being made in China.
