Sony 80 Minute MiniDisc MD Color (8-Pack)

by Sony

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3 x 3.3 x 2.5 inches ; 12 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006BMX5
• Item model number: 8MDW80CL
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #12 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Blank Media > Minidiscs
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001

Product Description

8 PK

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent product. Totally worth the money., January 29, 2003

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Anthony Morelli "Woofbear" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony 80 Minute MiniDisc MD Color (8-Pack) (Electronics)

I bought these SONY Colour Collection blank mini-discs for using with my MZ-R55, and they are excellent. No sound distortion, and definitely no comparison with the Memorex discs. Nothing flimsy here. Only quality, and 5 pretty colours. I really like the charcoal tone one.
What's even better, is that I can put all the discs away in the storage case, and not worry about where they are individually, because they are always there together. If you didn't know already, the colours are: emerald, topaz yellow, charcoal, sapphire and ruby. Even though there are only 8 pieces, there are obviously not two of each colour. If I am right, most sets come with 2 ruby, 2 topaz yellow, 2 emerald, 1 sapphire and 1 charcoal.

Anyhow, these discs withstand a lot of shock, and are to me, shock-resistant. I like the individual little cases they come in too. Nice touch with the transparent white plastic.

Well, these discs are totally worth the money, especially being 80 minutes. I can get lots of songs on them, and they're great for recording entire albums from MP3s.

Great Buy!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Space... the final frontier, February 22, 2005

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L. Power "nlp trainer" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony 80 Minute MiniDisc MD Color (8-Pack) (Electronics)

Well, I have many of these discs and they are very useful. The quality is perfect.

What makes them even better is that on some Sony mini disc players you can use long play recording modes to record for 160 or 320 minutes. My model is mzn 707 so I am sure all the newer models have this feature.

This is handy because if you record a lot you run out of space very quickly. If you record live material onto your computer you use tons of space (about 20 mb a minute), which is a problem.

Because the files are huge it is necessary to convert to mp3s. For this, I use Cool Edit 2000 available at www.syntrillium.com.

If you do record a lot may I recommend you also check out the new 1gb minidisc for newer model players.

With the new 1 gb 45 hour disc HI-MD mini disc it is now possible to get on one disc what I previously had to spread over 34 standard 80 minute discs. If I want, I can store about 900 songs, or 70 cd's, or save a whole year of voice lessons.

[...], so the value is incredible.

I highly recommend this.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quality discs with great colors, February 26, 2005

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ijcast (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony 80 Minute MiniDisc MD Color (8-Pack) (Electronics)

Memorex and other brands tend to be a bit less expensive, but I've found that the build quality of these Sony color minidiscs are better. And since they only are few cents more per disc, why not spend a little more for the quality? The colors allow you to color-code your collection, but you probably would have to buy these minidiscs in bulk for it to be worthwhile. I use these with my portable MD player which can record/transfer up to 6hrs of audio onto each minidisc. The included carrying case is handy and is small enough to fit in a coat pocket. My only complaint is that you probably wouldn't want to cover up these pretty little discs with the mundane labels Sony includes. There's a frosted finish on the face of these minidiscs so that you could write on it with a fine marker, but since many of the discs are dark, they would be hard to read.