The MMCD Player has a clamshell form factor with an LCD screen and a QWERTY keyboard, complete with a numeric keypad, four-way navigation pad, "yes" and "no" buttons and a set of function keys (F1 to F5).

[16] Titles by Compton's NewMedia (a CD-ROM publishing arm of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.) and Random House were also available, with some disks including software for both the MMCD Player and computer platforms such as DOS and Windows.

[18] In 1995, San Diego–based Visual Display Marketing was pitching their MMCD Player–based product to real estate associations, with its owner Gary Ripsco describe the concept of publishing weekly or biweekly home listing discs.

[22] Later, PC Magazine advised anyone but corporate purchasers "with a driving need to do away with a paper" against buying the Sony MMCD player, criticizing its high price and the incompatibility with other multimedia formats.

[4] In a 2006 column, Michael Rogers, who was an editor of the Newsweek Interactive division in the 1990s, said the Sony MMCD player was "far ahead of its time" but "slow as molasses."