Maxell Japan has launched a portable ‘Walkman’ cassette player, but its retro audio tech is boosted by modern convenience.

I used to run a cassette player every day when I was a kid, and now I'm bringing it back with this brand new Walkman-alike.

YouTube’s Techmoan recently tested Sony’s D-VM1 from 2001 which looked like a chonky CD player, but had an inline remote with a lightweight 3.5-inch screen for watching DVDs away from home.

Retrospekt makes the CP-81 Portable Cassette Player ($100), a Walkman-like cassette player with a see-through housing. Gaming gadgets are going translucent, too.

The player is equipped with a remarkable number of outputs. In addition to a USB port (which can send digital audio directly to a computer), there’s an optical port, and a line-level analog ...

This ieGeek Portable DVD Player has a compact design that makes it easy to carry around to mount it on your car headrests. The screen has HD eye protection that won’t fatigue your eyes after ...

Photo: Gio Bartlett/Unsplash 3. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, VHS While we're at it, Sony's contribution to music and media doesn't end with the Walkman. The Compact Disc (CD) was co-invented by Sony and ...

The Rewind Player is the best example of that. Made by some little company in France, and costing a pretty steep $159, this thing is keeping the Walkman tradition alive.

There are plenty of good reasons to pull out your physical media players. If you’re tired of streaming options, maybe it’s time to dust off your old physical media players.

But wise heads don't always prevail, so when Moondrop thought to bring back the portable CD player, it made sure to bring on board an engineer that had worked on Sony 's original Discman.