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Before the iPod, there was the Sony Walkman. This hand-held cassette player with stereo playback revolutionized the way people listened to and related to music. Introduced in Japan in 1979, it ...
If you're an audiophile who waxes nostalgic when it comes to the classic Walkman audio cassette and CD players -- you're in luck. There's a new Sony (SNE) Walkman out, though if you're in America ...
Various Sony Walkman products ranging from 1979 to 2016, on display at an expo in Tokyo. The following is a partial list of Sony Walkman products which includes products of various formats under the brand. Up to March 2010 Sony built 400 million Walkmans (of which slightly over half - 200.02 million - were original cassette Walkmans) worldwide. [1]
The three formats are physically very similar, featuring both the same magnetic tape width and near-identical cassette shells, measuring 95 × 62.5 × 15 mm. This gives a measure of backward compatibility in some cases. One difference between them is in the quality of the tape itself, but the main differences lie in the encoding of the video ...
The most popular tape format using a DV codec was MiniDV; these cassettes measured just 6.35 mm/¼ inch, making it ideal for video cameras and rendering older analog formats obsolete. [2] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DV was strongly associated with the transition from analog to digital desktop video production, and also with several ...
The variant called Super 16 mm, Super 16, or 16 mm Type W is an adaptation of the 1.66 (1.66:1 or 15:9) aspect ratio of the "Paramount format" [8] to 16 mm film. It was developed by Swedish cinematographer Rune Ericson in 1969, [ 9 ] using single-sprocket film and taking advantage of the extra room for an expanded picture area of 12.52 mm × 7. ...
The thickest tape normally used in cassettes is about 16-18 μm in thickness, and is used in C60 cassettes and in shorter lengths such as the C46. As the standard tape speed for a compact cassette is 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 ips (4.75 cm/s) and a C60 cassette records 30 minutes per side, a C60 cassette in theory holds 281 + 1 ⁄ 4 ft (85.73 m) of tape. In ...
Analog, 1 ⁄ 4-inch-wide (6.4 mm) tape, 3 + 3 ⁄ 4 in/s, endless-loop cartridge 1962 Compact cassette: Variants of the Compact Cassette Analog, with bias. 0.15 inches (3.81 mm) tape, 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 ips. 1970: introduced Dolby noise reduction: 1964 Sanyo Micro Pack 35 Channel Master 6546 Westinghouse H29R1