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Patented on March 29, 1988, a cassette tape adapter is a device that allows the use of portable audio players in older cassette decks.Originally designed to connect portable CD players to car stereos that only had cassette players, the cassette tape adapter has become popular with portable media players even on cars that have CD players built in.
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]
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 ...
Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), a magnetic tape sound recording format introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992 and marketed as the successor to the standard analog Compact Cassette; NT (cassette), a small cassette tape created by Sony that was smaller than a Picocassette only used for dictation machines but had plans to be used in music
Increasing sales of smartphones and tablet computers have led to a decline in sales of PMPs, [10] [11] leading to most devices being phased out, such as the iPod Touch on May 10, 2022, though certain flagship devices like the Sony Walkman are still in production. Portable DVD and BD players are still manufactured. [12]
Since the Japanese already dominated both the cassette and hi-fi equipment markets, incompatibility further undermined the market share of European-made cassette decks and CrO 2 cassettes. [64] In 1987, the IEC resolved the compatibility issue by appointing a new Type II reference tape U 564 W, a BASF ferricobalt with properties that were very ...
It took almost 10 years, however, before their idea was commercialized. Sony's MiniDisc was one of two rival digital systems introduced in 1992 that were intended to replace the Philips Compact Cassette analog audio tape system: the other was the Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), created by Philips and Matsushita (now Panasonic).
A Sony WM-75 Sports Walkman. A personal stereo, or personal cassette player, is a portable audio player for cassette tapes. This allows the user to listen to music through headphones while walking, jogging or relaxing. Personal stereos typically have a belt clip or a shoulder strap so a user can attach the device to a belt or wear it over their ...