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    Discman was Sony's brand name for portable CD players. The first Discman, the Sony D-50 or D-5 (depending on region), was launched in 1984. The brand name...
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    The Data Discman is an electronic book player introduced to the Western market in late 1991 or early 1992 by Sony Corporation. It was marketed in the...
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    including digital Walkman devices such as DAT, MiniDisc, CD (originally Discman then renamed the CD Walkman) and memory-type media players, it has sold...
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    player used to play compact discs. The first audio player released was the Discman D-50 by Sony. The basic features of a portable CD player are: Play/Pause...
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    the SRF-40 in 1980. Various FM, AM and DAB receivers have been made. See Discman, launch 1984. Sony's first brand extension of the Walkman cassette players...
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    Harkins and Stephen H. Morriss as inventors. In 1992, Sony launched the Data Discman, an electronic book reader that could read e-books that were stored on...
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  • save a life on a plane with his steady hand skills from controlling a Discman, and depicts two new roommates' periods syncing as they discover they are...
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    company jointly announced the Compact Disc (CD). In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series, an expansion of the Walkman brand to portable CD players. Sony...
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    notably Sony who released professional CD-i players under the "Intelligent Discman" brand. Unlike CD-ROM drives, CD-i players are complete computer systems...
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    typical early 1990s personal computer. An early portable CD player, a Sony Discman model D121. Mobile phones gained massive popularity worldwide during the...
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    Sony and it soon became the defacto standard. In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products. Under...
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    players gradually came down, and with the introduction of the portable Discman, the CD began to gain popularity in the larger popular and rock music markets...
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  • Songs In 'Little Fires Everywhere' Will Make You Want To Break Out Your Discman". bustle.com. "'Little Fires Everywhere' Soundtrack Album Details | Film...
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  • musician Daisuke Inoue in Kobe, Japan, in 1971. Portable CD player Sony's Discman, released in 1984, was the first portable CD player. Perpendicular recording...
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  • version changed the lyric "and her Walkman started to melt'" to "and her Discman/Megadrive started to melt." Their rendition of the song also appeared as...
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    stand-up albums ... growing up in the '90s, I would sit on the floor with my Discman and listen to comedy albums that I bought". Mulaney is a longtime collector...
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    Songs In 'Little Fires Everywhere' Will Make You Want To Break Out Your Discman". Bustle. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2021. "Laura L P Pergolizzi...
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    major boost when Sony used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players. "Cryin'", "Friends", and the title track were regional...
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  • are copies of the ground and first floors, before contacting MI6 via the Discman distress beacon. Blunt and Mrs Jones decide to put a unit on standby, to...
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    later publications. The player was sold concurrently with Sony's Data Discman e-book players. Unlike those devices, the MMCD Player could read full-size...
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    for a backlight. Among the first commercial e-readers were Sony's Data Discman (which was using Mini CDs with special caddies) and the Rocket eBook. Several...
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    prior to that, the personal stereo. In particular, Sony's Walkman and Discman are the ancestors of digital audio players such as Apple's iPod. There...
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    "...while former giant Sony (maker of the [portable] Walkman and [CD] Discman [was] struggling." This market shift was initiated when the first portable...
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    players gradually came down, and with the introduction of the portable Discman, the CD began to gain popularity in the larger popular and rock music markets...
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  • Ease CD Extreme CD-Text CD-IT CD-IT Pro CD-ROM (key-shaped logo) CD-ROM Discman Cdit CDit Pro Cell Century Media Cerasin Chassis Change the Way You Hear...
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    in the Capitol Hill district. He would insert the CD into his portable Discman player and walk around his neighborhood, humming melodies to the music...
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  • Walkman XDCAM Xperia Historical products AIBO CV-2000 DAT Betamax Sony CLIÉ Discman Jumbotron Lissa Mavica NEWS Optiarc Qualia Rolly TR-55 Trinitron FD series...
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  • selling only 1.5 million units. Gamate Released in 1991 CD-i Intelligent Discman IVO Released in 1991 Watara Supervision Released in 1992 Mega Duck/Cougar...
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    Sony Walkman in 1979. The introduction of the CD, along with the portable Discman player in 1984, began the displacement of LPs in the 1980s as the standard...
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    environments, and can also be used for indexing other kinds of data. Sony Data Discman Nesi, H., 'Dictionaries in electronic form', in Cowie, A.P. (Ed.), The...
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