Discmans known as Sony Discmans were portable compact disc players with battery-powered headphones. It was used to listen to music while on the move. There were several evolutions to the Discman product, including the addition of radio, reception, and the ability to play recordable and rewritable discs.
Personal audio equipment, such as mini radios capable of receiving SW, MW, and FM broadcasting, became very popular in the 1960s. The demand for portable cassette players that allowed choice of music playback was high in the 1970s. .
Sony was the first company to introduce mini radios to the market in the late 1950s. A culture of miniaturization developed, resulting in the first Sony Walkman being released on the market in 1980. It was a quick success because it was slightly smaller. bigger than a cassette tape. He encouraged Sony executives to invent a compact disc player to accomplish the same goals.
The first compact disc player was introduced in the market in 1982, it was called the CDP-101 and it was marketed by Sony. Sony announced that the compact disc technology was jointly developed by Philips, Polygram and CBS/Sony. Billy Joel’s 52nd Street was the first commercial audio compact disc and was released through the CBS/Sony label.
The head of the Engineering Development Department, Katsuaki Trushima, came up with the idea of creating a portable CD player in 1983. He hoped to create a CD player that would be no larger than three or four CD cases stacked up and sold at a reasonable price. affordable. The idea became known as the CD CD project.
In late 1984, Sony engineers managed to fit a CD player into a box slightly smaller than a block of wood. The D-50, nicknamed the Discman, was Sony’s first portable CD player released for Japanese music lovers, and Sony was confident of its profitability. The D-50 was never shipped under the Discman brand and is never the forerunner of all Sony Discman portable CD players.
CD players were very vulnerable to skipping in the early days. As the D-50 was no different and Sony’s first portable CD player was portable only, using this first generation Discman while on the move required very careful walking, jogging and other such activities.
The technology did not improve significantly as the international Sony Discman models were very similar to the D-50. The Discman D-100 is particularly slightly slimmer than the D-50. Compact display technology had improved by 1987 to the point where the D-20 was able to offer a built-in battery compartment. Sony had produced the Discman D-66 in 1992. In the early 2000s, there was a growth of MP3 music and significant design of the Sony Discman with Sony’s ‘G Protection’ anti-skip system.
The Discman moniker was retired and the CD Walkman was the new name given in 2000. At the same time, Sony introduced the ‘W’ logo made up of joined dots. The trademark remains the property of Sony, who reserves the right to revive the trademark in the future.