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MiniDisc (MD) is a discontinued erasable magneto-optical disc-based data storage format offering a capacity of 60, 74, or 80 minutes of digitized audio.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniDisc | Capacity | 60, 74, and 80 minutes | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Developed by | Sony | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Discontinued | March 2013; 13 years ago (2013-03) (players), February 2025; 1 year ago (2025-02) (media) | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Encoding | ATRAC | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Extended from | Compact Cassette, Compact disc | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Extended to | MD Data, Hi-MD | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Media type | Magneto-optical disc | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Read mechanism | 780 nm semiconductor laser diode | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Released | November 1992; 33 years ago (1992-11) | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Usage | Audio storage | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | Write mechanism | Magnetic field modulation | 1.00 | infobox |
| MiniDisc | is a | random-access medium | 0.90 | text |
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