{"id":69814,"date":"2013-02-04T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=69814"},"modified":"2013-02-04T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:50:02","slug":"sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/69814-sony.html","title":{"rendered":"Sony ends MiniDisc production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/347942-Sony\">Sony<\/a> has announced that the end is nigh for their MiniDisc format, with the last stereo system supporting the format leaving the production line in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>MiniDisc is a 20-year-old media format, essentially a small optical disc contained in a plastic case.<\/p>\n<p>The original format could hold 80-minutes of audio, with a later update to Hi-MD able to store 45 hours of audio (a 1GB capacity).<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story on <a title=\"Ars Technica\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gadget News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Cookoo smart watch review\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/69454-cookoo-smart-watch-review.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cookoo smart watch review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Microsoft Surface still unconfirmed for SA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/69402-microsoft-surface-still-unconfirmed-for-sa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Surface still unconfirmed for SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to BlackBerry\u2019s day of reckoning\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/69520-blackberrys-day-of-reckoning.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry\u2019s day of reckoning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69818\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69818\" title=\"Minidisc Sony MZ1\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg\" alt=\"Minidisc Sony MZ1\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1-40x30.jpg 40w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1-185x134.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1-250x181.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-69818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minidisc Sony MZ1<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony will cease production of MiniDisc systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":69816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[18050],"class_list":["post-69814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-minidisc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69820,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69814\/revisions\/69820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}