The exact settlement fee is a closely guarded secret but European press accounts said that Pavel received a cash settlement for damages in excess of $ 10, 000, 000 and is now also receiving royalties on some Walkman sales.

It is the only auto-reverse Walkman in history to use a two-motor, quartz-locked, disc drive system similar to high-end home cassette decks ( like the Nakamichi Dragon ) to ensure accurate tape speed for both sides ( only one motor operates at a time depending on the side of the tape being played ).

The Walkman Core is a digital audio player available in capacities of 1 GB and 512 MB.

Sony decided to choose Memory Stick Video format ( which actually is H. 264 / MPEG-4 AVC format ) as standard for Walkman MP3 Video Player.

However, as Sony only pushed ATRAC compatibility in Sony Ericsson Walkman series phones in the Japanese market, it is not supported in GSM / UMTS market phones.

This codec is used in Sony Hi-MD Walkman devices ( e. g., " Hi-LP and Hi-SP "), Network Walkman players, Memory Stick players, VAIO Pocket, PS3 and PSP console, and ATRAC CD players.

ATRAC Advanced Lossless is widely supported in older Walkman players and SonicStage version 4 or later.

ATRAC was also used on nearly all FLASH memory Walkman devices until the 8 series but is now only used in Sony's MiniDisc devices ( as of November 2008 ) as ATRAC is fundamental to the MiniDisc specification.

This view is best exemplified by the book Doing Cultural Studies: The Case of the Sony Walkman ( by Paul du Gay et al.

Another format is only slightly larger than the cassette, also adapted for stereo " Walkman " player applications.

The Sony Walkman can serve as a functional example whose life cycle is well-documented.

Also a character in the series, also one of the JoJos himself, Joseph Joestar is often seen in the end of the each story arc he appears in listening the song from his Walkman.

Although modern headphones have been particularly widely sold and used for listening to stereo recordings since the release of the Walkman, there is subjective debate regarding the nature of their reproduction of stereo sound.

* The Walkman Circ is released.

The other song, " Where Has Everybody Gone ", is heard from Necros's Walkman in the film.

When connected to a computer ( via USB cable ), a Hi-MD Walkman is seen as standard USB Mass Storage device, just like a USB stick or external hard drive.

Such modified phone will be able to use the Walkman feature which is available to W series phones only.

Instead the Walkman player appears when it is pressed.

Though supposedly set one year before the first Amityville Horror film, Amityville II is full of elements that are clearly from the 1980s, such as a miniature " Walkman " radio / headphone set and the presence of 1982 cars, televisions, etc.

Andreas Pavel ( born in 1945 ) is a German-Brazilian inventor who is the ' father ' of the portable personal stereo cassette player, better known as the Walkman.

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

* 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.

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.

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.

In March 2007, Sony extended the brand by launching its first all-digital, flash-based video Walkman, the A800 series, where A stands for " All in one, Advanced, and Attractive ".

In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman in Japan, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee.

The advertising of the Sony Walkman served to portray it as a culturally " hip " item.

Sony accomplished the genius feat of mass individualized and targeted advertisement, enabling the Walkman to be recognized as an influential piece of technology.

Through Sony's effort to " certain meanings and practices which have become emblematic of -- which seem to stand for or to represent -- a distinctive ' way of life ': the culture of late-modern, post-industrial societies ", the Walkman remains, largely due to effective advertisement, a symbol of the freedom and portability that Sony sought to convey among the younger demographic.

Sony Walkman WM-2 with plastic battery case and beltclip ( 1980 )

Originally marketed as the " Soundabout " in the U. S., the " Stowaway " in the U. K., and the " Freestyle " in Sweden, Sony soon had the new name " Walkman " embossed into the metal tape cover of the device.

The highest quality Sony Walkman recording cassette deck was the Walkman Professional.

Amid fierce competition, primarily from Toshiba ( the Walky ), Aiwa ( the CassetteBoy ) and Panasonic ( the MiJockey ), by the late 1980s, Sony upped the ante once again by creating the playback-only WM-DD9, launched in 1989 during the 10th anniversary of the Walkman ( five years after the WM-D6C ) and became the holy grail for a niche group of cassette Walkman collectors.

Sony still continues to make cassette-based Walkman devices in China for the US and other overseas markets, however they were discontinued in Japan only on October 23, 2010.

Every five years since the Walkman personal stereo was born in 1979 until 1999, Sony would celebrate by coming out with an anniversary cassette model on July 1.

However, cassette Walkman innovation would come to an end as during its 25th Anniversary, Sony chose to not introduce another limited run cassette model but instead, brought out the hard disk based NW-HD1 in 2004 to officially augur the death of the compact cassette.

In August 2006, Sony Canada began selling cassette Walkman personal stereos again, but this time they were only offering a basic model, the WM-FX197.

In October 2010, it was reported that manufacturing of the cassette-based Walkman would cease in Japan, but that Sony would continue production of the device in China to accommodate users abroad, including in the United States, Europe, and some Asian countries.

In recent years, Sony has dropped the Discman name and markets all its personal stereos under the Walkman brand.

The Sony GV-8 Video Walkman was introduced in 1989.

Morita hated the name " Walkman " and asked that it be changed, but relented after being told by junior executives that a promotion campaign had already begun using the brand name and that it would be too expensive to change.

After losing a large portion of the market to other companies, Sony's latest attempt to revive the Walkman brand involved a series of music-centred mobile phones marketed under the former Sony Ericsson brand.

The W800 Walkman, released in 2005 ( 2 August 2005 in the UK ), was the first Sony Ericsson phone to use the Walkman brand.