The Sony D-35 Discman personal portable compact disc player offers the same kind of versatility. It`s the first portable to include every feature of a fully equipped, full-size home CD player.

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.

Starting in the 1980s, Sony produced the Discman, a CD version of its popular cassette Walkman player. I had a Sony Discman or two in the 1990s, and they were pretty boring—typically clamshell ...

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Lorde’s fourth studio album, Virgin, released on June 27, 2025. Fans who opted for a physical copy of the album on CD did so for the unique format—it’s entirely transparent. The only downside? Some CD ...

The Discman [sjm] is working with uses a custom, Sony-branded battery based on NiMH technology with a capacity of around 500 mAH. After carefully measuring the dimensions of this battery, it was ...

In 1988, Sony endeavored to release a Discman that could actually fit in your pocket. But since a device that can fit a whole, regular-sized CD inside it is virtually always going to be too large ...

I burned a mix CD on my Lite-On using WinXP's built-in burning software. The CD works fine in computers and my roomate's stereo system, but not in my old sony boombox or discman.

Sony's Walkman turns 35 years old today (July 1), having made its debut back in 1979. The iconic music player is the product that transformed the Japanese company into a global name, selling more ...

Following the release of its popular Walkman-inspired CP13 portable cassette player, FiiO is continuing the fun with a Discman-esque portable CD player – the new DM13. It's well documented that vinyl ...

New Windows Media Player app travels back in time, gains the ability to rip CDs Welcome news for anyone who's ready to retire their Sony Discman.

Walkman became the generic name for a generation of pocketable tape players. But there was only one genuine maker of the iconic machines – Sony. Not any more – the Japanese electronics behemoth has ...