Customer Reviews

Sony 80 Minute MiniDisc MD Color (8-Pack)

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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!

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.

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.

I could not find this product in the stores anymore because of all the mp3 players out now; i would guess. I bought these from the recording store and they must not have had the regular discs and they sent me the gold ones. Better yet! I stocked up this time around!

sent quickly and nicely packaged. these will do the job for those desiring a shorter recording program.

I ordered 3-8 packs of mini- discs. These are now unavailable
In normal electronic stores. (best buy or fry's)
The price was very good. The transaction was seamless.
I received the order in a week. It was scheduled to arrive in 5-14 days.
Overall I was very pleased with my online purchase through Amazon.

I have bought and used maybe 100 of these minidiscs over the years, and they have not failed yet (unlike Memorex discs!).

The "Shock Absorbing Mechanism" actually works(to a small degree). I happen to like the red, green, blue and purple colors, though I really have no use for them. I know some people who use the colors for categorization. I don't want to know what they use the purple ones for, though.

Sony is exagerating when they claim "highest level of performance" ... that would be HHB brand discs at three times the price. If you are a pro making once-in-a-lifetime recordings, you probably use HHBs already. The Sony minidiscs are perfectly fine for the rest of us.

I own an older Sony minidisc recorder (model MDS-JE520) and I was hoping these 80 minute discs worked OK with it. They do. Plus, each disc comes with an individual plastic case and label. That's good. I have not compared the performance of these Sony discs with ohter brands--like HHB-- but I can tell you that the Sony discs sound fine for my project archiving needs.

These discs are 80 minutes at a great price and allow for playing downloaded songs NOT paid for or authorized for burning, to be recorded via the disc-player/recorder [thru headphones out of computer to mic input of minidisc recorder] Sounds great, just pay close attention to volume settings on each playback. Of course this is all accomplished in real time, no accelerated option here.

Ok first of all these mini disc are like game cube dics actualy a little smaller... but the are in a little floppy like diskette. I just had to clear that up becuase every where i went like best buy would tell me that they were just cds but their not. O well they still r awesome and id have to say that these sony dics are the best you can get. though i think the next time i need mini dics i think ill get the sony golds. SO no matter wut ever u like more the colors or the gold id have to say that sony is the way to go .