Known as the Sony Discman Discman CD players were using the headphones powered by batteries. It 'was used to listen to music on the go. There have been several developments in the Discman product including the addition of radio reception and the ability to play recordable and rewritable.
Staff can receive audio devices such as mini-radios SW, MW and FM transmission was very popular in 1960. The demand for portable cassette recorder allows the choicemusic-making was high in 1970.
Sony was the first company to bring the mini-radio on the market at the end of 1950. A culture of miniaturization develops, leading to the first version of the Sony Walkman on the market in 1980. It 'been a quick success because of too little bigger than a cassette. He encouraged the leaders of Sony for a CD player to invent, to achieve the same objectives.
The CD player on the market was first introduced in 1982, was called CDP-101 andwas distributed by Sony. It 'was announced by Sony, the technology compact disc was developed jointly by Philips, Polygram and CBS / Sony. 52nd Street by Billy Joel was the first commercial audio CDs and was released by CBS / Sony.
The head of the Department of Development, Katsuaki Tsurushima came up with the idea of a portable CD player in 1983 to create. He hoped that a CD player that would not be larger than three or four CD cases stacked together and sold toaffordable price. The idea was, like CD-CD-known project.
By the end of 1984, Sony engineers have succeeded in a CD player in one case, which is slightly smaller block of wood. Called the D-50 was the first Sony Discman portable CD players released for Japanese music lovers and Sony is confident about its profitability. The D-50 has never been delivered with the Discman and branding has never been the forerunner of Sony Discman portable CD players.
CD players were very willing to jump inearly days. When D-50 otherwise, and the first Sony portable CD player had been worn only with this first generation Discman while driving requires a lot of attention to walking, jogging and similar activities.
The technology does not improve significantly, there were international models of Sony Discman D-50 with much the same. The Discman D-100 is slightly thinner than most D-50. The compact display technology has been improved since 1987 as far as D-20 position, the offer wasintegrated into the battery compartment. Sony produced the Discman D-66 until 1992. In early 2000 there was an increase of MP3 music and great design of Sony Discman with Sony "G-Protection, slipper system.
The nickname was withdrawn and the Discman CD Walkman became the new name given in 2000. At the same time, the Sony logo 'W' formed by dots are connected. The brand is not heard from Sony that the right to the trademark in the future reserves to revive itself.
