• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    59·
    11 months ago

    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 😩

    • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
      22·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Donut@leminal.spaceEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      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.