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MiniDisc

The Sony MZ1 MiniDisc player, the first to hit the market in 1992.
Media type	Magneto-optical disc
Encoding	ATRAC, linear PCM (with Hi-MD)
Capacity	80 min (standard MiniDisc), up to 45 hours of audio (1 GB capacity) (with Hi-MD)
Read mechanism	780 nm laser
Write mechanism	Magnetic field modulation
Developed by	Sony
Usage	Audio storage, Data storage (with Hi-MD)

Optical disc authoring
Optical media types
Optical disc Optical disc drive Optical disc authoring Authoring software Recording technologies Recording modes Packet writing
Laserdisc (LD), Video Single Disc (VSD) Compact Disc (CD): Red Book, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, 5.1 Music Disc, SACD, PhotoCD, CD Video (CDV), Video CD (VCD), SVCD, CD+G, CD-Text, CD-ROM XA, CD-i GD-ROM MiniDisc (MD) (Hi-MD) DVD: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RW DL, DVD+RW DL, DVD-RAM, DVD-D Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Universal Media Disc (UMD) HD DVD: HD DVD-R, HD DVD-RW Blu-ray Disc (BD): BD-R, BD-RE High-Definition Versatile Disc (HVD) High definition Versatile Multilayer Disc (HD VMD)
Standards
Rainbow Books File systems ISO 9660 Joliet Rock Ridge El Torito Apple ISO 9660 Extensions Universal Disk Format (UDF) Mount Rainier
Further reading
History of optical storage media High definition optical disc format war
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See also IBM's VM operating system family, where "minidisk" refers to a logical unit of storage.
For the album by Gescom, see Minidisc (Gescom album).

A MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device initially intended for storage of up to 80 minutes of digitized audio. Today, in the form of Hi-MD, it has developed into a general-purpose storage medium in addition to greatly expanding its audio roots.

MiniDisc was announced by Sony in 1991 and introduced January 12, 1992. The music format was originally based exclusively on ATRAC audio data compression, but the option of linear PCM recording was ultimately introduced to attain CD-quality recordings. MiniDiscs were popular in Japan and Asia as a digital upgrade from cassette tapes, but were not as popular elsewhere.

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