Mass-produced MDs were stamped (or molded) just like CDs were. There was nothing new here but stuff like the codec and the packaging -- the media itself had more in common with a CD than it had differences. They were strictly read-only.
Meanwhile, recordable MDs were a whole different magneto-optical thing, full of neat tricks.
AFAIK, there haven't been any mass-produced MD albums for a rather long time.
But there have been some recent albums made on recordable MDs -- slowly, one at a time -- whether new, NOS or recycled or whatever.
Mass-produced MDs were stamped (or molded) just like CDs were. There was nothing new here but stuff like the codec and the packaging -- the media itself had more in common with a CD than it had differences. They were strictly read-only.
Meanwhile, recordable MDs were a whole different magneto-optical thing, full of neat tricks.
AFAIK, there haven't been any mass-produced MD albums for a rather long time.
But there have been some recent albums made on recordable MDs -- slowly, one at a time -- whether new, NOS or recycled or whatever.