In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products.

* Philips Consumer Products, Guildford provides sales and marketing for televisions, including High Definition televisions, DVD recorders, hi-fi and portable audio, CD recorders, PC peripherals, cordless telephones, home and kitchen appliances, personal care ( shavers, hair dryers, body beauty and oral hygiene ).

Resembling a slightly longer version of the typical portable CD player of the day.

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.

* Electronic skip protection in portable CD players

The memory buffer concept introduced by MiniDisc was soon incorporated into portable CD players as well, and in hard drive based digital audio players.

Sony WalkmanLike the transistor radio in the 1950s and 1960s, the portable CD player in the 1990s, and the MP3 player in the 2000s, the Walkman defined the portable music market in the 1980s, with cassette sales overtaking those of LPs.

The portable music player platform of the 80s was cassette ; of the 90s it was CD ; in the 2000s the platform was MP3 ; each successive platform shift effectively rendering the previous platform outdated.

Other possible components include various media devices, such as ( in older vehicles ) a tape player ( either 8-track or cassette ), CD player, DVD player, HD Radio, Satellite Radio, USB flash memory, and even a portable hard disk drive typically used in notebook computing.

For example, a portable CD player's headphone jack is connected to the modulator, which outputs a low-power FM radio signal that is played through the car radio.

As a result, that music was locked into this ecosystem and available for portable use only through the purchase of one of the above devices, or by burning to CD and optionally re-ripping to a DRM-free format such as MP3 or WAV.

Many home and portable entertainment systems supported both formats and commonly allowed the CD playback to be recorded on cassette tape.

Headphones either have wires for connection to a signal source such as an audio amplifier, radio, CD player, portable media player or mobile phone, or have a wireless receiver, which is used to pick up signal without using a cable.

Headphones may be used both with fixed equipment such as CD or DVD players, home theater, personal computers and with portable devices ( e. g. digital audio player / mp3 player, mobile phone, etc .).

Yet others are related to the CD player's intended target, such as anti-skip for car and portable CD players, pitch control and queing for a DJ's CD player, remote and system integration for household players.

Some car radios with CD playback, portable CD players, CD players with additional support for data CDs containing MP3 files, and DVD players have had problems with these CDs.

Boombox is a colloquial expression for a portable cassette or CD player with two or more loudspeakers.

The amended law makes hacking digital locks illegal, but enshrine into law the ability of purchasers to record and copy music from a CD to portable devices.

Johnny takes a leisurely walk while listening to " Ode to Joy " on his portable CD player until a man outside of Café le Prick insults him after Johnny informs him that he does not smoke.

The portable record player with a pile of classical records beside it.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

* In-Theater Audio Commentary, viewing a film in a theater while listening to commentary on a portable audio player

The Commodore brand name resurfaced in late 2003 on an inexpensive portable MP3 player made in the People's Republic of China by Tai Guen Enterprise, sold mostly in Europe.

A PDA has an electronic visual display, enabling it to include a web browser, all current models also have audio capabilities enabling use as a portable media player, and also enabling most of them to be used as mobile phones.

Besides Philips, several other manufacturers produced CD-i players, including Magnavox, GoldStar / LG Electronics, Digital Video Systems, Memorex, Grundig, Sony (' Intelligent Discman ', a portable CD-i player ), Kyocera, NBS, Highscreen, and Bang & Olufsen, who produced a television with a built-in CD-i device ( Beocenter AV5 ).

) Also in the Thirties, RCA sold the modernistic RCA Victor M Special, a polished aluminum portable record player designed by John Vassos.

A portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereobelt, was first invented by the German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel in 1972.

The age of the portable music player grew during the 1960s with the development of 8-track and cassette tapes, which slowly began to replace record players.

At one extreme users of public transport sometimes complain about the faint and tinny sounds emanating from the headphones or earbuds of somebody listening to a portable audio player ; at the other the sound of very loud music, a jet engine at close quarters, etc.

Stationary MiniDisc player / recorders never got into the lower price ranges, and most consumers had to connect the portable player to the hi-fi in order to record.

This inconvenience contrasted with the earlier common use of cassette player / recorders as a more or less standard part of an ordinary hi-fi set-up, even before the breakthrough of portable cassette tape players.

The backs of seats are often equipped with a fold-down tray for eating, writing, or as a place to set up a portable computer, or a music or video player.

At the introduction stage, a manufacturer ( Sony ) trail-blazes a new product ( a portable cassette player with the trademark name " Walkman ") with the most basic feature set ( play, pause, stop, fast forward, rewind, eject ) in order to engage the consumer and support use and acceptance ; meanwhile, competitors " wait and see " if the product will create a market worth investing in.

* " The Return of the Toxic Revenger ": Plucky plays The Toxic Revenger and shuts down Montana Max's air-polluting " donut hole factory ," which produces portable holes.

* A portable hole plays a key role in Jack Vance's " Liane the Wayfarer ", published in The Dying Earth in 1950.

An electronic calculator is a small, portable, often inexpensive electronic device used to perform both basic and complex operations of arithmetic.

The portable cheirosiphōn (" hand-siphon "), the earliest analogue to a modern flamethrower, is extensively attested in the military documents of the 10th century, and recommended for use in both sea and land.

Because the format is free, and its reference implementation is not subject to restrictions associated with copyright, Ogg's various codecs have been incorporated into a number of different free and proprietary media players, both commercial and non-commercial, as well as portable media players and GPS receivers from different manufacturers.

Today, OS-9 is a product name used by both a Motorola 68000-series machine language OS and a portable ( PowerPC, x86, etc.

While both of these experiments had certain levels of success, the technology had not yet reached a sufficiently advanced level to be fully effective ; for example, the Toronto portable defibrillator and heart monitor was powered by lead-acid car batteries, and weighed around.

High climbers and whistle punks were both phased out in the 1960s to early 1970s when portable steel towers replaced spar trees and radio equipment replaced steam whistles for communication.

Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.

In the late 1990s Apple was trimming its product line from the bewildering variety of intersecting Performa, Quadra, LC, Power Macintosh and PowerBook models to a simplified " four box " strategy: desktop and portable computers, each in both consumer and professional models.

In 1785, Jefferson was using both stationary and portable presses made by James Watt & Co.

* The song is also currently available as DLC for both Rock Band ( released on July 28, 2009 ) and its portable counterpart, Rock Band Unplugged ( released October 22, 2009 ).

Instead, Adkison asked Garfield if he could invent a game that was both portable and quick-playing, to which Garfield agreed.

Nintendo has also announced at their E3 2011 conference that they will be releasing a new Super Smash Bros. game on both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS, making it the first cross-platform and portable release in the series.

* Cellular telephones and pagers: provide connectivity for portable and mobile applications, both personal and business.

Thus liquids ( and gases that can be stored in liquid form ) meet the requirements of being both portable and clean burning.

With the Precision Bass ( or " P-Bass "), released in 1951, Leo Fender addressed both issues: the Telecaster-based Precision Bass was small and portable, and its solid body construction and four magnet, single coil pickup let it play at higher volumes without feedback.

Currently, technology allows a driver to issue voice commands on both a portable GPS like a TomTom and a car manufacturer navigation system.

One face of the fragmentary silver cover of the portable altar also recovered from Cuthbert's coffin has a similar combination of elements, with both areas of interlace and, in the four corners, a simple plant motif with a central bud or leaf and a spiral shoot on either side.

Delphi XE2 is supplied with both the VCL, and an alternative library called FireMonkey that supports Windows, Apple Mac OS X and the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad portable devices.

Being both portable and able to generate wind speeds of between 140-270 mph and air volumes of 14 cbm per minute, the leaf blower has many potential uses in amateur construction projects.

It also presented two practical advantages to the company ; STREAMS ' multiprotocol support would allow them to support both TCP / IP and AppleTalk from a single interface, and a portable cross-platform version of STREAMS was available for purchase commercially, one that included a high-quality TCP implementation.

In 1785, Jefferson was using both stationary and portable presses made by James Watt & Co.

Students in both 7 and 8 currently have Food Technology classes at the senior site and a few general portable classrooms are also at the senior site for the junior school students.