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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman

How Sony Turned the Walkman Into a Product Line in 1982

Last day to order Sony: Year by Year before the reprint closes

The Wireless Cassette Walkman: A Visual History (1988–1999)

Last chance to get Sony: Year by Year before the reprint closes

First Million Reads

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T700

The First Compact Disc Player: How Sony’s 1982 CDP-101 Launched the CD Era

IMX410: The Real Story Behind “Sony Powering Half the Camera Industry”

What Was Sony’s First Product?

PlayStation 2 Price History

Why Gen Z Is Buying 20-Year-Old Sony Cyber-Shot Cameras in 2026

Why PlayStation 6 Still Has No Release Window

How Sony Solved Digital Cinema’s Hardest Problem

How Sony Lost Control of Digital Music

PlayStation No Longer Needs New Hardware

Spider-Man at Sony: The $7 Million Rights Deal That Became Corporate Infrastructure

What Sony Learned from Betamax

Why the PlayStation 4 Still Makes Sense in 2026

Why Sony Shut Down Bluepoint Games and What It Means for PlayStation Remakes

PlayStation Home: Why Sony Shut Down Its Virtual World

How Michael Jackson Taught Sony How to Own Music

What the God of War Trilogy Remake Means for the PlayStation 2 in 2026

PlayStation 1: Sony’s First Gaming Platform, Architecture, and Legacy

Why Sony’s Greatest Products Failed

Why Did Sony Exit the Blu-ray Disc Recorder Market?

Is the PlayStation 2 Worth Buying in 2026?

Why was the Sony Trinitron so good?

Why Did the PS3 Fail?

Which PS3 Models Play PS2 Discs? (Complete Backwards Compatibility List)

Why Sony Built the Emotion Engine

Why the PlayStation 2 Was Impossible to Compete With

Blu-ray Explained: How It Works, Why It Beat HD DVD, and Why It Was the Last Physical Media Standard

What Is the PS2 BIOS? How It Works and Why Emulators Need It

MiniDisc: Sony’s Digital Audio Format, History, and Legacy

The Walkman Models That Defined Each Era

Why the PSP Lost Even After Selling 80 Million Units

PSP vs PS Vita: Why This Comparison Never Fully Made Sense

Is the PlayStation 3 Worth Buying in 2026?

How Steve Jobs Created the iPod the Same Way Sony Created the Walkman

PS1 vs PS2 vs PS3: Which Console Generation Had the Biggest Jump in Graphics and Performance?

Complete List of All Official PlayStation 2 Models and Variants (2000–2008)

Sony and TCL Explained: The BRAVIA Joint Venture, Ownership Split, and Why Sony Changed How It Makes TVs

Why Netflix Is Ending PS3 Support

The PSP Was Never “Basically a PS2”

The Sports Walkman: A Visual History (1983–2001)

What Is PS2 Recomp? PS2 Recompilation Explained

Why Was the PS3 $599 at Launch?

PlayStation 3 Backward Compatibility Explained

Did the PSP Fail?

How Many PlayStation 2 Games Were Released?

How Many PlayStation 2 Consoles Were Sold?

PlayStation 2 Backward Compatibility Explained

Why Sony VAIO Failed

PlayStation 2 Launch History

The Walkman: A Visual History (1979–2004)

Why the PlayStation Vita Failed: The Uncomfortable Truth

Sony at 80: The History of Eight Decades

The Rise and Fall of Cyber-Shot

Sony’s 1981 Camera With No Film

The Weirdest-Looking VAIO Ever Made

When the Walkman Became Jewelry

The Walkman Monkey

How Sony Made TV Graphics in 1982

Sony’s First DVD Player

The Last Time Sony Cared About Vinyl

Sony and the Shape of LaserDisc

Visual Guide to Sony’s MiniDisc (1992–2006)

Beyond Sony: Introducing Obsolete Electronics Archive

How the Walkman Phone Went Mainstream

The Rise of the Professional Walkman

The Countdown Begins

The Double Decker Walkman

The First Discman

The Birth of the Sports Walkman

How Sony Created the World’s First OLED TV

How Sony Invented the 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk

It's Officially Happening

The New Book Is Finally Here

The Tablet Before Tablets

The First Cyber-Shot

The Evolution of Sony Video

The Discman Era

How Japan’s 1980s Boom Sparked Portable Video

Sony’s Giant Screen Dream

Sony’s Giant Cassette That Never Caught On

The Discman That Couldn’t Fit a CD

The 10th Anniversary MiniDisc

The First Digital Video Walkman

The Birth of the Walkman Phone

The Midnight Blue PlayStation

The Last Walkman Sold in America

VAIO UX: The Pocket-Sized PC

The Final Discman

The Walkman With a Camera

The Marketing Playbook Behind Sony’s First Console

Sony’s MDR-7506 and the Art of Survival

When Cameras Ran on Floppy Disks

The Audiophile Discman

The Walkman King

When the World Stopped for a Console

Sony’s Rolly: The Dancing Egg

The Time Sony Built a Mall

How One Component Nearly Sank the PS3

20 Years After the Sony Rootkit Scandal

MiniDisc Reloaded

How the Walkman Got an Audiophile Makeover

The Last MiniDisc Walkman

The Day Frank Sinatra Fell for a Tiny Sony TV

The Cassette Recorder That Went to the Moon

Inside The First PlayStation Demo

The Dawn of Portable Sound

The Rise of Video8

How Namco Helped Sony Launch the PlayStation Era

How Nintendo and Sony's Partnership Fell Apart

Behind the Scenes of Sony's Most Unforgettable TV Ad

When Jamiroquai Made MiniDisc Cool

PlayStation’s Accidental Strategy

The Story Behind the VAIO Brand

The Man Who Shaped the PlayStation

How Sony Tried to Bring the Internet to PS1

The VAIO X505: Sony’s Ultra-Light Vision of the Future

MYLO: Sony’s Lost Bet on a Wi-Fi Future

Inside the 2011 PlayStation Network Hack

David Lynch’s Sony Camcorder

How the PSP Marketing Went Off the Rails

The Creation of Sony CLIÉ

The PlayStation 2 Supercomputer

How Sony and Honda Turned a 40-Year Friendship into a Car

The Secret Sony iPhone Prototype

How Trinitron Nearly Broke Sony

The 1995 Sony Video Camera That Defined Skateboarding

The Rise and Fall of UMD Movies

Kojima and the Walkman

The Secret Origin of PlayStation

The Moment Jobs Let Go of Sony

When Sony Turned the PS2 Into a Linux PC

Sony’s Forgotten Bet on WebTV

Inside the Rushed Development of MiniDisc

The Man Who Engineered Sony

How Sony Pushed the Limits of The Walkman

The Quiet Reinvention of Sony

How Sony Gave a Machine a Soul

The Mascot That Couldn’t Save MiniDisc

When Sony Tried to Build Perfection

The Machine Sony Tried to Erase

How Sony Solved Music ID Before Smartphones

Sony’s $5 Billion Mistake

The Time Steve Jobs Tried to Redesign the PSP

Win an Obsolete Sony Tee and My New Book

When PlayStation Was Home

The Laptop That Gave Sony a Voice

Sony's Secret Masterpiece

Before VAIO: The Forgotten Machines

Why Sony Watched the Future Walk Away

When Steve Jobs Came Knocking

How Sony’s Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the PlayStation

How Sony Turned a Gray Box Into a Global Cultural Icon

How Sony Shaped Steve Jobs’ Vision

How Sony Launched 4K Before the World Was Ready

Hi-MD: Sony’s MiniDisc Last Stand

The Hidden Origin of the 1981 Walkman II

How MiniDisc Worked

How Software Sank the Walkman’s iPod Dreams

The Coolest Record Player Ever Made

How a Decade of CD-ROM Experiments Led Sony to the PlayStation

The Creation of the First Walkman

Sony’s Early LCD Struggles and the Rise of BRAVIA

How Sony Solved the Discman’s Biggest Problem

Walkman: The Next 10 Years

The Birth of Sony Computers

We need to talk

The History of Sony's Magic Link

Last Chance to Grab the Ultimate Sony Book

Sony DAT: A Complete History of the Format

The Rise and Fall of the Super Audio CD

The Creation of Trinitron

The Creation of "My First Sony"

How A Teenager Beat Sony to Revolutionize Virtual Reality

The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models

How Sony Shaped High-Definition Video in the 80s and 90s

How the PlayStation Phone Failed to Revolutionize Mobile Gaming

The PSX DVR: Sony’s Short-Lived PlayStation Hybrid

The Rise and Fall of the Sony MiniDisc: Why It Failed

The Creation of the Compact Disc

Sony’s Forgotten 100-Inch Flat TV From 1968

The Story of Sony's First Portable CD Player

The Journey to Save the Last Known 43-Inch Sony CRT

The Ultra-Rare Canada Day Red PlayStation 3

Support SONY: YEAR BY YEAR Before the Campaign Ends

Sony’s Watchman Evolution (1982-1997)

The Rise and Fall of the Sony PlayStation Vita

SONY: YEAR BY YEAR – A VISUAL JOURNEY" is Officially Live!

"SONY: YEAR BY YEAR – A VISUAL JOURNEY" Book Launching Soon on Kickstarter!

How Sony Transformed Consumer Video Recording (1985-2013)

Pro Audio Legacy: Sony's Professional Audio Innovations (1958-2006)

The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Cassette Walkmans

The Evolution of Sony's Mavica Cameras

From Glasstron to VR: The Sony Headgear Saga (1992-2013)

Visual Guide to Sony's Network Walkman (1999-2013)

The Early Years of Sony MiniDisc (1992-1996)

QUALIA: Sony’s Most Expensive Luxury Series (2003-2006)

The Evolution of Sony's Cyber-shot Cameras (1996-2011)

A Look Back at Sony Ericsson's Pioneering Phones of the 2000s

Sony Product Placements in Iconic Films

The Early Years of Sony VAIO (1995-2003)

Complete Visual Guide to Sony CLIÉ (2000-2004)

Sony Year by Year: 1996's Top Products and Innovations

50 years of Sony Tape Technology Evolution (1950-2000)

The Discman Evolution: How Sony Perfected Portable CD Listening (1984-1999)

Complete Visual Guide to Sony MiniDisc Blank Media (1992-2004)

The Headphone Revolution: Sony’s MDR Series Through the Years

The Evolution of Sony’s TV: Key Innovations and Iconic Models

10 Beautifully Designed 1980's Sony Computers That Never Quite Delivered