Has Mini Disc production been halted?

Factual Questions
1

I read on some webpage that was linked from waxy.org, thats they indeed had been stopped due to low demand or something.

Can anyone confirm these claims? With a site?

2

Minidisc is alive and well.

3

Thanks ooga, but I knew I could of checked those sites.
Perhaps, it is going to go out of date soon, is more of what I meant. I would never expect it too dissapear 1 day after reading about it on that site. (which I have yet to find)

Do you personally beleive the MD format will soon deminish?

4

If Minidiscs fall out of favor for personal music, their lifespan will be greatly extended by their use in broadcast production. Minidiscs and DATs are very commonly used as high-quality, yet easily portable recording formats for radio station news departments. Similarly, while Betamax is dead, a similar videotape format is used for high-quality recording at TV stations.

5

And, for what it’s worth, a MD player is a dealer-installable option on new Mazda MPV minivans. I don’t know anyone, myself, who uses Minidiscs. I doubt they’ll be used for consumer purposes much at all in the future, with the advent of smaller, larger capacity, and higher quality MP3 or AAC players.