Sony released the first MiniDisc player, the Sony Walkman MZ-1, in December 1992. It utilized their proprietary ATRAC lossless compression technology to store high-quality audio recordings on ...

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July ... of the company's success in Japan and Europe with its digital MiniDisc player, said Doherty, Envisioneering Group's research director.

Today, Sony introduced its 2005 lineup of MiniDisc (MD) digital audio players, ranging from the ... Despite the new display, the Sony MZ-RH10 Hi-MD Walkman is still pricey. If you want the bigger ...

LAS VEGAS (CES Booth #N109), Jan. 7, 2004 -Taking the MiniDisc™ a big step forward, Sony today announced its new Hi-MD™ Walkman® digital music players. With Hi-MD technology, users can record up to 45 ...

Today, the Sony Walkman turns 35 years old ... Things started to wobble for Sony a bit in the 2000s, we saw the move to Minidisc, a great format in many ways, but not one most people showed ...

Nostalgia combined with a curiosity among the young have created a hot market for old technology, including the once-beloved Sony Walkman ... Discmans and MiniDisc players. He tries to limit ...

Even the first portable cassette players ... as the CD Walkman. Having failed to popularize the Digital Audio Tape (DAT) among consumers, Sony launched the floppy-shaped MiniDisc format in 1992.

My ‘Walkman’ – it didn’t matter the brand, all portable tape players were referred ... lived but much-loved MiniDisc period, and I have fonder memories of my Sony Ericsson W880i Walkman ...

For most people, MiniDisc ... of those portable players. [Daniel Rojas] cleverly solved this problem by directly adding Bluetooth functionality to a Sony MZ-R500 MiniDisc Walkman.

The pocket cassette players and accompanying on-ear headphones that Sony launched ... morphing to MiniDisc and CD formats before going digital 20 years after the launch of the first Walkman.

and was soon superseded by the MiniDisc and, by the early 2000s, the invention which would blow them all out of the water: Apple’s iPod. The Walkman had a pretty good run, though - Sony only ...

The iconic Sony Walkman is set to return as a hi-res streaming player. The device was first released in 1979, selling over 500,000 units in its first year. It became a huge leap forward in ...