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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·edit-21 year agoWasn’t the actual “Discman” a Sony product? In the same line as their Walkman cassette players, but for CDs? I had a Walkman back in the day; but never an official Discman player. All my CD players were pieces of shit 😩
minus-squareOttomateeverything@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-21 year agoYes. The pictured item is a portable cd player, not a Discman. Apparently SL-SK420 or whatever that says didn’t have the same ring to it.
minus-squareDonut@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoThis is an interesting phenomenon called a proprietary eponym, where a brand name becomes synonymous with a product. Just like walkman and disc man, in my language we call a car satnav a “TomTom” after the brand that popularised it here.
minus-squaremxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoHere is the scene from the Clerks cartoon about adhesive strips. https://youtu.be/wD6ZW05R9kY?si=G7DxsQtQf1iQ82mh
minus-squareespentan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoYeap, Discman was the name used by Sony up until around the year 2000, when they changed it to “CD Walkman”.
Wasn’t the actual “Discman” a Sony product? In the same line as their Walkman cassette players, but for CDs?
I had a Walkman back in the day; but never an official Discman player. All my CD players were pieces of shit 😩
Yes. The pictured item is a portable cd player, not a Discman.
Apparently SL-SK420 or whatever that says didn’t have the same ring to it.
This is an interesting phenomenon called a proprietary eponym, where a brand name becomes synonymous with a product.
Just like walkman and disc man, in my language we call a car satnav a “TomTom” after the brand that popularised it here.
Here is the scene from the Clerks cartoon about adhesive strips.
https://youtu.be/wD6ZW05R9kY?si=G7DxsQtQf1iQ82mh
Yeap, Discman was the name used by Sony up until around the year 2000, when they changed it to “CD Walkman”.