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Fluffy_Little_Fox t1_j21btiz wrote

Ya know what I wish???? I wish that Sony wouldn't have kept ATRAC & the Mini-Disc Technology all to themselves.

It was a brilliant concept -- take a tiny version of a CD and stuff it inside a plastic casing with a little sliding window just like a Floppy Disk. That way the surface of the Disc doesn't have to be handled by human hands (unless you move the window aside and do it on purpose). Such a change could have worked out great for the entire Record Industry.

And the ATRAC Format itself was very interesting. But like anything Sony ever does, they wanted to keep it just for themselves.

They doomed this neat idea to failure by being too selfish with it. Mini-Disc could have revolutionized the entire market.

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