Huh, I just finished watching a youtube video on MiniDisc's rise and fall, with some twists along the way (featuring DAT, DCC, CD and eventually the iPod) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCK89V4NpJY
What I didn't know is that it has had a bit of a resurgence in a niche of retro enthusiasts, with limited indie hip-hop/waporwave/future funk releases as blank media continue to be made by Sony.
Somebodies probably trying to sell you something. I just got the same video on youtube. It's a very sublte form of marketing that plants ideas or breads knowledge before it's needed.
For example, remember all those articles that came out about the Max Headroom tv hack a few years ago? And then six months later Eminem is dressed as Max Headroom in his rap god video. An obscure cultural reference that you probably wouldn't get unless you were preconditioned.
So in six months time when a song or movie or product comes out and it's got mini disc references, you'll know.
Funny you mention DCC, I always though it to be superior over DAT as a DCC-player could operate audio cassette but I think their sales even dwarfed compared to DAT.
What I didn't know is that it has had a bit of a resurgence in a niche of retro enthusiasts, with limited indie hip-hop/waporwave/future funk releases as blank media continue to be made by Sony.