bought this new old format does anybody know anything about it

soddin computer is worse than a commodore 64 anyway i have tried just can't get good pics but I'm like a kid in a sweetshop lol, if it wasn't for longman i would have cancelled the order cheers lad...also have 3 pink floyd albums on the way Rock on

 

bigger walkmans comparison these Walkman's are 2"deeper than the discman but still small in comparison to the early Walkman's like the sony tps l2 so discman came a long way imho
glad to share with you guys cheers lads...one last titbit, my first cd player came from tandys mid 80's and it took 10 AA batteries no anti shock nothing, it must have been huge never seen one like that since, it was short lived as it was stolen, the battery life was less than 2 hours on 10 Duracell AA lol

 

Here are some more of these mini CD players :
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/80mmcd/index.html
http://www.amptone.com/audio/minicdvsdataplay.htm Scroll about halfway the page.

At that time they were rapidly overtaken by solidstate MP3 players and therefore never were a success.

 

yes i abandoned cd like many and bought one of these in about 1999
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334120256400?hash=item4dcb1e8390:g:vA0AAOSwQsphH5mf

then bought one of these about 2001
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/383710183378?hash=item5956e8bfd2:g:XKMAAOSwUdRfVjpn
both expensive, trouble with these they were hdd based and if dropped them normally it was game over unless you could change the hdd which i could
but soon moved on and shortly after i joined stg in 2002 and started buying boomboxes, the rest is history. The 3 cd players i have bought shown on this thread i guess are the first ones i have bought in 20 years not including boomboxes or computers. so this 3" cd is rather special to me as i never knew cd players had advanced so much although i have heard of the mini cd discs as i had a games console that used them also i had one of the single cd's around 2001 but never heard of the players like good ol mister x

 

Here is a great video on mini cd, mine seems to be smaller than these maybe it's the smallest one in the world

 

You say the MD players you tested were rubbish!. Have you tested any of the HiMD recorder/players?. You can record 90 minutes of high quality audio in linear PCM mode which is indistinguishable from the source CD. Some of these HiMD Walkman have Hi Definition Digital Amp Technology on board as well. They are fetching serious $$$ now for a sound reason. No pun intended

 

I confess i never tried portable Md after that it wasn't so much bad sound quality with them, they just couldn't power a real set of cans

 

Well this is an anti climax for this thread. the pink floyd cd's turned up, there just normal cd's so most likely you can only play copies or cd singles on this format, if anybody want's to buy this it's for sale for £200 plus shipping which is what i paid cheers guys

 

Which Pink Floyd 8cm CDs do you have Reno?

 

none they all turned out to be normal cd's which you can get over here much cheaper my friend

so the answer is in, it seems i landed on a fancy doorstop lol

thank god i haven't paid over $1000 like people are paying for this

 

I see.
I wondered whether it was any of these (pics from interweb - they're not mine)...

 

Thanks paul lad, i wonder if they are available over here

 

i bought wish you were here dsotm and the wall but all normal cd im afraid

 

It seems there were just a dozen or so models from all of the manufacturers ever made. Philips made three that I know of: EXP401, EXP411 and EXP431. The latter is the best looking of the three and probably the best looking of all the MiniCD players across the board. I wanted to buy one just for kicks, but not for this money. I also considered an EXP411 for $35, but it is so freaking ugly even for this price, so I dropped this idea.

I have two or three MiniCD singles that I bought in anticipation of getting a MiniCD player.

There is a comprehensive review of the American version of the EXP431, which did not come with rechargeable batteries and cannot charge them even if you put rechargeables in it. Funny, the guy was also listening to Pink Floyd



The whole point of a MiniCD player is to play MP3 CDs - you can get more playtime than a regular Audio CD in a smaller package. If solid state and streaming did not pick up, I would expect MiniDVD-Audio machines to appear - with 1.4 GB capacity they would fit as much as two regular CDs. This would be a nice format. DVD-Audio is a nice format in general, allowing for a whole spectrum of bit depth and bitrate, I wish it succeeded (I totally don't care for SACD).

If you remember sci-fi movies of the 1990s, they liked shiny discs, but they used much smaller discs for their props than regular CDs, apparently film directors had the same idea that small disc were cute, while regular-sized were not. They thought that in the future we'll still be using discs, just smaller ones - these movie guys totally lacked imagination

MiniCD players and MiniCDs were stillborn: I was buying 128 MB Smartmedia cards for $50 apiece in early 2000s to use in my MPMan F-60. Funny, these cards cost the same on eBay now, because they are not being manufactured anymore.



128 MB is about half of a MiniCD capacity, but it is solid state, re-recordable, and much smaller in size. I could fit more than two hours of 128 Kbit/s MP3 on each card.

And recently I bought a 128 GB SD card for only $20, this is like 180 Redbook CD-Audio albums on a single card - get this, Johnny Mnemonic.

 

@Radio Raheem You realise that is a full size disc in the Sony. A similar idea to the personal stereos that were smaller than a cassette.

@CDV is right that most people bought MP3 players to play CDRs which they had acquired from various sources (and I don't mean the local record store). I am sure my colleague had something like all the main Beatles albums on a single CD-R.

What the film companies said about Betamax "A product whose sole purpose is to infringe copyright" applied even more to CD Burners and these.

 

If you skip past the 50-second mark of my video, you will see some of those CDs that you could not buy in your local record store . I think the thumbnail gives you an idea. These are proper factory pressed CDs - not burned ones. I probably should have made a separate video about them.