• Jessica
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    11 months ago

    Ah yes, the Panasonic Discman, the prime successor to the Phillips Walkman.

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        11 months ago

        I thought to myself for the briefest of moments: Am I being Mandela Effect’d?

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I am really confused now. I know Discman is Sony’s name, but generally people refer to any such portable CD player as “discman”. At least where I live.
      And it’s not just regular people, even shops refer to them as dicmans.
      Here are some examples to back my claims:

      examples

      https://www.alza.sk/discmany/18886534.htm
      https://aukro.sk/discmany
      https://www.mall.sk/discmany
      https://discmany.heureka.sk/
      https://www.okay.sk/collections/discmany

      The only exception seems to be Nay, referring to this category as “Portable CD players”.

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        11 months ago

        That’s very interesting! Around me, we called them CD Players, it must be a regional thing. Many people called the portable cassette player a Walkman, even though that was a lineup of products from Sony.

        Looking on US Amazon, there are several players that have Discman, Walkman, or both in the titles. Sony must not be enforcing their trademarks (wrong term?) for the first non-sponsored listing being called:

        2000mAh Rechargeable Discman CD Player:Walkman CD Player

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        11 months ago

        generally people refer to any such portable CD player as “discman”. At least where I live.

        Yeah, and there’s people that call them Kleenex, Velcro, and iPads. That doesn’t make them right.

        There’s no confusion - Discman is the model of Sony’s portable CD players. People using the term incorrectly is simply that.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah we called them all discman too. A Kleenex/tissue situation imo.

        Edit: though I do concede an official label in some sort of display probably should use the generic form “portable CD player” or something similar.