#dataplay

[bongorama]

2002: Dataplay - A CD for the New Millenium?

“The CD went on to revolutionise the way we buy and listen to music, and nothing has come close to taking over from it… until now.” Tomorrow’s World’s Roger Black and Kate Humble look at the latest challenger to the compact disc’s crown – dataplay. Dataplay is a fraction of the size of a traditional compact disc, but can hold ten times as much information. Is this the CD for the new…

2002: Dataplay - A CD for the New Millenium?

[awwfulsounds]

iRiver iDP-100 portable music player designed to play DataPlay discs, a miniature disc format (the size of a quarter) that could hold 500mb of data but was ultimately a commercial failure 2002 (x)

[15tarlit5kyline]

[bibberly]

Wow, it stores 500 megabytes! Be still my heart.

I didn't remember this particular piece of technology, even though it's not that old, so I assumed it was never a major success. I looked it up on Wikipedia and found this:

"DataPlay is an optical disc system developed by DataPlay Inc. and released to the consumer market in 2002. Using very small (32mm diameter) disks enclosed in a protective cartridge storing 250MB per side, DataPlay was intended primarily for portable music playback, including both pre-recorded disks and user-recorded disks (and disks that combined pre-recorded information with a writable area).

DataPlay included an elaborate digital rights management system designed to allow consumers to "unlock" extra pre-recorded content on the disk, after the initial purchase.

The recorded music industry was generally supportive of DataPlay and a small number of a pre-recorded DataPlay disks were released, including a Britney Spears album. However, as a pre-recorded format DataPlay was a dismal failure."