Sony has taken the decision to stop manufacturing the MiniDisc Walkman, a product which first appeared on the market back in 1992. A report by Nikkei on Friday said that shipments would cease this ...

Time to retire those tapes. Sony has said that it's stopping production of the Walkman, due to lackluster sales of the outdated music player. According to the company, the last round of the portable ...

The cassette-playing Walkman is no more after Sony decided to stop manufacturing the ground-breaking device in Japan after more than 30 years. The move comes just months after Sony scrapped production ...

LAS VEGAS (CES Booth #N109), Jan. 7, 2004 -Taking the MiniDisc™ a big step forward, Sony today announced its new Hi-MD™ Walkman® digital music players. With Hi-MD technology, users can record up to 45 ...

Hardly a year after the cassette-playing Walkman was finally consigned to oblivion, news has broken out that the same fate will be shared by the MiniDisc. In case the MiniDisc never made a difference ...

In July 1979, the Sony Walkman went on sale, making music truly portable for the first time. Forty years later, we look back on the impact it had on the industry. A favorite playlist is one way to ...

Sony has finally decided to press "stop" on the production of its Walkman cassette player, acknowledging its irrelevance in a changing market. Though the company has sold 200 million of the iconic ...

Sony's finally gotten around to adding native support for playback of MP3s to their MiniDisc players and then what do they do? They go right ahead and add something else that no one thought was ...

The first Sony Walkman went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, introducing both a new concept in music and a device that would become an icon of modern pop culture -- a personal, portable stereo.

Today, Sony introduced its 2005 lineup of MiniDisc (MD) digital audio players, ranging from the playback-only MZ-DN430 ($99.99) to the MZ-DH10P, the first MD player with a built-in digital camera.

Be sure to bring an HB pencil... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first Sony Walkman hit shelves – we ...