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SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:15 Ben Gilbert How crazy is it that we're telling the CD story, the origin of the CD format before the Walkman?
- ▶ 1:08:21 David Rosenthal Before the Walkman.
- ▶ 1:10:48 David Rosenthal What you were referring to the Walkman.
- ▶ 1:10:53 David Rosenthal Uh, and this is another thing I didn't realize that the Walkman came out like pretty concurrently with the rise of CDs.
- ▶ 1:11:21 Ben Gilbert That is the story with the Walkman.
- ▶ 1:13:47 Ben Gilbert And there's this one quote in particular, which is, I do not believe any amount of market research could have told us that the Sony Walkman would be successful.
- ▶ 1:14:00 Ben Gilbert And yet, the Sony Walkman has literally changed the habits of millions of people around the world.
- ▶ 1:15:17 Ben Gilbert And I think Scully even met right around this time, Scully and Steve, with Akio Morita, and he says, I remember Morita gave Steve and me one of the first Sony Walkmans.
- ▶ 1:16:06 Ben Gilbert Transistor radio, Trinitron television, first consumer VCR, Walkman audio CD,
- ▶ 1:17:02 David Rosenthal So, the first Walkman comes out in Japan in July of 1979.
- ▶ 1:17:37 David Rosenthal So this stat was fascinating to me, both for how big it is and how small it is all in Sony sells a quarter billion walkmans in the life of the product.
- ▶ 1:18:39 David Rosenthal So, the Walkman, of course, eventually leads to the Discman, also becomes the
- ▶ 1:18:47 David Rosenthal I had so many of those growing up and Walkmans too.
- ▶ 1:18:49 David Rosenthal Did you have Walkmans?
- ▶ 1:18:50 Ben Gilbert I had one Walkman and one Discman and both of them were that sort of like light Sony gray color that like they, it was like that plastic that was designed to look like metal.
- ▶ 1:20:45 Ben Gilbert I had the Sony tape Walkman, the Discman, the mini disc player, a PS two and the PSP, uh, many, many sets of Sony headphones.
- ▶ 1:22:06 David Rosenthal Two, the Walkman.
- ▶ 1:51:47 David Rosenthal It's just like the Walkman.
- ▶ 2:19:36 Ben Gilbert I don't know, Walkman?