Sony has announced an update to its popular MiniDisc (MD) digital music medium, turning it into a PC-compatible storage format as well as increasing the capacity of each disk. The move could offer ...

CAN a MiniDisc Walkman rival the iPod? Sony thinks so. After exploiting some intriguing physics to boost the storage capacity of the languishing MiniDisc audio format more than fivefold, the company ...

Sony has announced it'll stop making and selling MiniDisc stereos next month, so it's the end of an era. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his liking for all ...

Hot on the heels of the most successfu storage mediums of all time -- MiniDisc and Zip disks -- Sony has announced the Optical Disc Archive, a system that seems to cram up to 30 Blu-ray discs into a ...