IIRC that one doesn’t have skip protection
It says it has it on the front.
i never claimed to be able to read
basically all cutting edge tech from my teen years:
What’s the long black cable coming off it?
It’s a headphones cable with a built-in remote so you could put the player in your bag and change tracks using the remote built into the headphones cable.
Also you guys are making me feel painfully old.
I’m just fucking with ya, I’m old. Walkmans were a thing when I was young, phasing out portable boom boxes that used large non-rechargable D cell batteries… All LEDs were red back then, because it was the only color available. The internet hadn’t been popularised yet, and “yo” was a cool new way to say hello.
It’s the tether for your Airpods so you don’t lose them.
Also, are those two circles the display? That’s a pretty cool design. I really like old technology.
Then I guess you must have overlooked the first cell phone models you used (or even later ones) in that same museum…
Me too buddy, me too.
I had this exact model ! Burned a CD with all the Linkin Park, Sum 41, Blink 182, Rage against the machine, System of a Down, Red hot chili peppers, and more !
Those were simpler times…
Papercuts is a jam
It’s still probably my favourite song of all time lol
All at 128kbps!
You have an exquisite taste in music.
A pretty shitty museum really. Discman was only made by Sony.
I was gonna say, this museum had one job and they failed it
And why would you want one from 2002 instead of more of an OG like the Sony d-777 from around 1994.
the one pictured could play mp3 cds, you could actually walk with it. i want the OG where even thinking of a bump would make it skip.
It says MP3 on it. I remember when I was a kid, I wanted a mp3-player because it was the hot shit. So I bought a Panasonic discman that said “MP3” on it. That’s when I learned what “mp3-disks” are and how to quickly navigate through 400 songs using one button
This early 21st century edition includes Anti-Skip Protection, some archaeological research indicates that it functioned the same way ESP or Electronic Skip Protection, however no conclusive records have ever been recovered…
I guess that panasonic one I had in 1986 would be over next to the dinosaurs.
Mine was like the first one shown in this commercial. What they don’t show you was the huge battery pack you had put the portable in.
Hah, I had that exact model in high school. It eventually broke and I replaced it with something better via best buy warranty.
Feels like this would fit in as some background piece in Doctor Who.
Damn kid you had the high tech newfangled round clear gel looking shit.
I had the original 6AA battery disc man where you can either listen to music for a couple of drives without skipping, or a week if you didn’t turn the anti skip buffer on.
The anti-skip sucked battery?
Horribly, it read the disk into a memory buffer, then played from the buffer. Ram was expensive, tiny, and power hungry back then. It was pretty shock-sensitive too. Every time it detected a fail, it would have to seek/re-read the section. If you had some decent bass, the song itself could set it off :)
It wasn’t the buffer itself that drew power. It was the need to physically spin the disc faster in order to read the data to build up a buffer. So it would draw more power even if you left it physically stable. And then, if it would actually skip in reading, it would need to seek back to where it was to build up the buffer again.
Sure didn’t seem like it was doing that, It took 6 seconds for it to start playing to fill that six second buffer. But I lacked the equipment to test its playback speed back then. So maybe you’re right.
More battery drain with anti-skip.
The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second “anti-skip” (at this point it’s not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can’t play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.
But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
At least I think that’s what the manual is trying to sayTo enjoy high quality CD sound, select “G-off”.
Ode to a world of ownership
I don’t know why, but this hits the hardest.
