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Nobutoshi Kihara (木原 信敏 Kihara Nobutoshi, 14 October 1926 – 13 February 2011) was an engineer at Sony, best known for his work on the original Walkman cassette-tape player in the 1970s and was commonly called Mr. Walkman in the press.
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.
Digital8 is the most recent 8mm video format. It retains the same physical cassette shell as its predecessors, and can even record onto Video8 (not recommended) or Hi8 cassettes. However, the format in which video is encoded and stored on the tape itself is the entirely digital DV format (and thus very different from the analog Video8 and Hi8 ...
The Walkman cassette player debuted in 1979 and sold 220 million units over the course of three decades, even as CDs and other digital technology wiped out classic tapes.
It’s been a rough past two and a half decades for Sony, the 78-year-old company that invented the Walkman and the PlayStation and had long been an icon of consumer electronics.
The jumbotron was invented in Japan during the early 1980s, but there is a dispute between two rival Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Electric and Sony, over its invention. [2] In 1980, Mitsubishi introduced the first large-scale video board, [ 7 ] the Diamond Vision , which was a large screen using cathode-ray tube technology similar to ...
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 ...
Sony is also the company that produced the first color video camera using a CCD, the XC-1. The Sony Mavica, released in 1981, is a prototype of the world's first commercial electronic still camera. Sony played a significant role in the tech industry in the second half of the 20th century alongside Hewlett-Packard and IBM.