17 MiniDisc
MiniDisc is the first real consumer application where the medium is not a tape, but a rewritable disc, with all its benefits.
When Compact Disc came on the market, the conversion from analog audio to digital data was performed in a fairly straight-forward way. In other words, the data are a true representation of the analog audio. This conversion method needs a huge amount of data if we want it to be an accurate representation of the input audio.
For MD, there was a need for a smaller disc to make it even more convenient. However, a smaller disc means automatically that the amount of data that we can put on it is also limited. The only solution then is to compress the audio data. The same has already been performed with computer data ...
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