evolution of portable audio devices

By paoxy1
  • Walkman

    Walkman
    Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players in the late 1970s. In the 2010s, it was used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
  • Discman

    Discman
    Discman was the product name given to Sony's first portable CD player, the D-5 (North America and various other countries)/D-50, which was the first on the market in 1984,and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line. In Japan, all Discman products are referred to as "CD Walkman".
  • Digital Audio Tape

    Digital Audio Tape
    DAT (Digital Audio Tape) is a standard medium and technology for the digital recording of audio on tape at a professional level of quality. A DAT drive is a digital tape recorder with rotating heads similar to those found in a video deck. Most DAT drives can record at sample rates of 44.1 kHz, the CD audio standard, and 48 kHz.
  • The MiniDisc

    The MiniDisc
    The MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device offering a capacity of 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013.
  • Network Walkman (Flash)

    Network Walkman (Flash)
    Network Walkman is a registered trademark of Sony and applies to a series of digital music players with hard disks distributed from the fall of 2005. Since 2007, a new series flash memory type storage volume has been on the market . Type usb media player and they have up to 8 GB of disk space.
  • Hi-MD

    Hi-MD
    n January 2004, Sony announced the Hi-MD media storage format as a further development of the MiniDisc format.[1] With its release in later 2004, came the ability to use newly developed, high-capacity 1 gigabyte Hi-MD discs, sporting the same dimensions as regular MiniDiscs.
  • Walkman MP3

    Walkman MP3
    Since 2006, Sony has launched new Walkman-Mp3 players and have also chosen to transfer the Walkman brand to Sony Walkman their mobile phones, music players that are synchronized with Windows Media Player from Windows.
  • Walkman Video MP3

    Walkman Video MP3
    Walkman Video MP3 Player combined the music playback capability of current Walkman MP3 Player line with video. Sony decided to choose Memory Stick Video format (which is actually the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format) as standard for Walkman MP3 Video Player.