The January 1993 issue of What Hi-Fi? proves to be a fascinating insight into the world of home entertainment, both then and now. Not only does it enthuse about an exciting new medium for music ...

Step away from your favourite streaming service, push the cumbersome and costly vinyl revival to one side, and forget your feelings for the comeback of CDs (and cassette tapes?) for one moment, ...

Don’t throw those MiniDiscs away just yet - there might be a revival on the horizon It was once considered the cutting edge of audio technology and an essential piece of kit for journalists. However, ...

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 ...

In today’s world, smartphones are the go-to devices for remote music listening. But decades ago, the iconic Sony Walkman was the preferred choice for listening through headphones to music on walks, ...

Sony quietly announced the release of the last stereo system that will ever feature its MiniDisc format, effectively killing the format. Frankly, we were surprised to hear the 20-plus year old disc ...

RIP MiniDisc, we hardly knew ye. Yes, Sony recently sounded the death knell for the digital format (first introduced in 1992), announcing that the final MiniDisc players would ship in March. In many ...

The rise and fall of the digital compact cassette remains a salutary lesson for tech titans—it shows how you can get nearly everything right, and yet still fail badly. Like Britpop, whose 1993-1996 ...

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 ...