Richard

I would in theory like to try one of these for my RH1, but I don't think I have confidence / skills to take it apart (or more importantly put it back together again), coupled with the fact the jog dial is also kind of knackered on my RH1 means it's maybe not worth the investment for me. Awesome initiative though!

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TDK MD | MD-XG "SP" Series (1999) These TDK Japan discs are from 1999 and were available in 60 and 74 minute variants. The shell is the familiar TDK diagonal hatching design and the discs inside are tinted gold.

Fairly minimal overall, but the font on the disc and the logo with the removed corner echoes that on the packaging.

Courtesy of @JayTilston

The colors are a bit 1970's 😅 It was another bargain range of products to be sold in supermarkets, but being made by Saehan the discs are good quality and quite similar to their Natural Wave range. They do seem to be quite rare, they don't come up for sale very often - it took me about 4 years between finding the 80 minute discs and picking up the 74s recently. Even opened packs don't appear very often from what I can tell...

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I have no idea about the actual problem - seems quite strange. But as an equally irrelevant answer to the aside from @BearBoy, the front of the 630 is painted metal. You can see if you look at the underside when you open it

Prices on discs are way too high, but he has some useful accessories.

I renamed it purely on a hunch, but also becuase I'm a bit OCD about spelling and capitalisation of topic titles 😆

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Wow that's awesome! It's always great to receive a box full of fresh unopened discs

They were a feature of many Axia discs but other than that I think only Maxell had some tinted cases and they were all tinted dark grey as opposed to color matched with the discs. That kind of detail is one of the things I really like about Axia discs

Thanks Chris - really nice to see you around the place again 😁

Axia MD | MD PS (Player's Spirits) - 1st Version (1997) This series released in 1997 is one of my favourite Axia discs. I love the slightly more subtle paler shade of blue on the disc itself and on the tinted cases. As usual the attention to detail is very high - apart from the one typo on the index card - see if you can spot it. The discs were available in both 60 minute and 74 minute versions.

I never quite understood why pre-recorded MD's rocketed in price either. I have a few, but they were all picked up for next to nothing on eBay, sometime in the mid to late 2000's when no-one was interested in them any more. I also always thought it was just easier to buy the CD and make your own MD copy.

I'm not really sure how many I have - I'll have to try and do a full count at some point..

We should open a museum one day!

Exactly - this like a few of the early discs falls into the "definitely looks better wrapped" category, along with the Scotch, early Sharps etc.. Wow - 30 years old!! I didn't even think of that

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Victor MD | Victor XM-C31 (W) The Victor XM-C31 was released in October 2004 and came in several colour schemes - pink, blue and this which was nominally called white, although a large proportion of the unit is black. The front panel features a unique square design pattern.

Sony MD | MDW-74 (1993) The Sony MDW-74, released on 10th April 1993 in Japan was Sony's first 74 minute disc. There are some early variations that feature the inverted design also seen on the early MDW-60's. There is also a later version with a slightly smaller embossed arrow in the top left hand corner.

Those must be the European versions - they are indeed the same as the Ho (which was Japan only) apart from the shutter design. All great looking discs! I'll try and do a full pictorial on the Ho's separately.

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