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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. -
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The Evolution of Portable Audio Devices
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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,[1] and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line. In Japan, all Discman products are referred to as "CD Walkman" and the name was adopted worldwide in 2000 along with a redesigned "Walkman" logo. -
DAT'
Digital Audio Tape (DAT or R-DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987.[1] In appearance it is similar to a Compact Cassette, using 3.81 mm / 0.15" (commonly referred to as 4mm) magnetic tape enclosed in a protective shell, but is roughly half the size at 73 mm × 54 mm × 10.5 mm. As the name suggests, the recording is digital rather than analog -
MD
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 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. This last series was finally released in 2007 now journal end proprietary software constraints and taking more care of the ATRAC format. Contrary to what the name of the series suggests (network - English -
Hi-MD
In 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. The Hi-MD format can be considered obsolete as the last recorder/player was discontinued in 2011. The discs themselves were withdrawn from sale in September 2012, though regular MiniDiscs are still available. -
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 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.
