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Sony CDP-101 Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially released compact disc player. [1] The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen (approx US$730). [2] The Japan-only launch was partially because Philips, Sony's partner in the development of the CD format, was unable to meet the original agreed ...
Portable CD players are powered by batteries and they have a 1/8" headphone jack into which the user plugs a pair of headphones. The first portable CD player released was the D-50 by Sony. [58] The D-50 was made available on the market in 1984, [59] and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line.
The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, it can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is hooked up to a television set or a computer monitor); these graphics are almost exclusively used to display lyrics on a television set for karaoke performers to sing along with. The CD+G ...
The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released in October 1982 in Japan. The format gained worldwide acceptance in 1983–84, selling more than a million CD players in its first two years, to play 22.5 million discs, [2] before overtaking records and cassette tapes to
Alarm Clocks. 725-2008 Prior to the year 725, no one was ever on time for anything. But that year in China, Yi Xing invented the first known alarm clock, and the descendants of his contraption ...
A Sony D-V500 portable video CD player from 1996. Note that it does not bear the Discman brand. Video CD Discman, later rebranded as VCD Walkman, was a line of portable Video CD players. They were able to output the audio from video CDs as usual, but were also equipped with an additional 3.5mm audio/video-to-RCA connector output. [5] [6] [7]
From 1997, Sony's Discman range of portable compact disc (CD) players started to rebrand as CD Walkman. [45] In 2000, the Walkman brand (the entire range) was unified, and a new small icon, "W.", was made for the branding. [44] From 2012, Walkman was also the name of the music player software on Sony Xperia. It has since been rebranded to Music.
CD players are often a part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, and personal computers. They are also manufactured as portable devices. Modern units can play other formats in addition to PCM audio coding used in CDs, such as MP3, AAC and WMA. DJs often use players with an adjustable playback speed to alter the pitch and tempo