Mini CD-R (late 1990s - ) | Museum of Obsolete Media (original) (raw)
Mini CD-R (CD-Recordable) are 8cm versions of CD-R. They can hold anything from 156 MB (18 minutes of music) to 210 MB (24 minutes of music).
They can be written to in spindle-based or tray-loading CD-R burners (and read in spindle-based or tray-loading Compact Disc players) but there were also some devices that were specifically designed around the mini CD-R/CD-RW.
One of these was a number of models in the Sony Mavica line of digital cameras. The first of these was the MVC-CD1000 released in 2000, which could record to mini CD-Rs. The MVC-CD200 and CD300 introduced in 2001 added support for mini CD-RW. When using a Mavica camera, 156 MB capacity discs needed to be used, otherwise data loss could occur.
There was also a portable mini CD-R/CD-RW burner called the Imation RipGo! that was introduced in 2001. This could burn MP3 files to disc, and also play them back. Sony also introduced a mini CD burner (called the PhotoVault), allowing pictures to be saved from a Memory Stick, USB flash drive, or camera with a USB connection.