I know Japanese alpine, pioneer, kenwood, etc all still make them. But do they make models still available in North America?

 

Sony does and is still available.

 

I think Nakamichi still makes them.

 

I know you asked about MD HU's but I just wanted to mention that my friend got a clarion 835 and he picked up the clarion minidisc changer that they have available. Good price and a very small unit.

 

I think Alpine does still....

Almost everybody still makes them, they just don't ship them outside of Japan.......

 

alpine only has a japanese one...nothing in NA

 

IMO, its not marketed very well. Most people we sell minidisk to, have either never heard of it, i really dont know ANYTHING about it when the come into the store.

 

I have a portable minidisc player I bought for use at the gym. When I was in the market for a portable audio player, I was looking at the RIO mp3 players. The sony minidisc player offered everything that piece did at the same price, and media for the minidisc player is insanely cheap compared to upgrading memory on the RIO players.

Ofcourse, this was before the hd units dropped in price. Either way, minidisc suited my needs much better.