discman
Speech parts
1. discman - Noun
2. Discman - Proper noun
Meaning
Discman
A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line
Discman (plural Discmans)
Alternative letter-case form of discman
discman
A portable personal compact disc player with headphones.
Related terms
Examples
As the price of players gradually came down, and with the introduction of the portable Discman the CD began to gain popularity in the larger popular and rock music markets.
Du Gay, 55 Sony continues to use the "Walkman" brand name for most of their portable audio devices, after the "Discman" name for CD players was dropped in the late 1990s.
For years, the Discman and MD Walkman were successes in the marketplace.
The names "Walkman", "Pressman", " Watchman ", " Scoopman ", " Discman ", and " Talkman " are trademarks of Sony, and have been applied to a wide range of portable entertainment devices manufactured by the company.
In recent years, Sony has dropped the Discman name and markets all its personal stereos under the Walkman brand.
Later Discman models featured ESP (Electronic Skip Protection), which pre-read the music from the CD into on-board memory and formed a type of buffer to prevent the CD skipping when the player was moved.