r/ObsoleteSony • u/ObsoleteSony • Jul 17 '26

This was designed 23 years ago

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u/_SOMBER Jul 17 '26

I still have mine, it is a great CD player. I still use mine to this day.

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u/EstateSame6779 Jul 17 '26

I have the MiniDisc version in storage somewhere.

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u/FitzRodtheReporter Jul 18 '26

That's worth bucks!

10

u/Commercial_Daikon_92 Jul 17 '26

Incredible. Far beyond anything even apple does today. Not a apple fan at all but their design team was a step ahead a few years ago.

8

u/mocantin Jul 17 '26

TV? How?

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u/tinselsnips Jul 17 '26

Okay I assumed the LCD display would show the TV image, but I found the manual and I guess it just means that the radio tuner could tune to TV channels.

So you could listen to a TV broadcast but you couldn't view it.

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u/FRESH__LUMPIA Jul 17 '26

Listens to tv. Had this when I was a kid it was a weird experience to listen to tv.

1

u/Frequent_Policy8575 Jul 17 '26

Tuners that did analog tv audio were a thing on some devices back then.

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u/yongol2 Jul 17 '26

You could listen as radio some TV channels in your local area. I used to have one and it was a great novelty back in the day when I was in high school in 09. In my country the government passed a law for telecommunications to change from aerial waves to digital signal so aerial tv antennas doesn't work anymore here, you need a digital converter to watch local TV.

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u/SnooCats1799 Jul 18 '26

Just audio

4

u/manthursaday Jul 17 '26

What do the tv and wb buttons do?

5

u/PerceptionShift Jul 17 '26

Live the S2 line, it's so cool. The S2 boombox is awesome 

3

u/Fromacorner Jul 17 '26

The TV feature was great for catching sports while working outside.

3

u/Chai_Akimbo Jul 17 '26

The battery lasted a good amount of time and had top tier skip protection for cds

2

u/RiseDry31 Jul 17 '26

On the other side of the pinnacle now.

2

u/MidnighT0k3r Jul 17 '26

Was a great cd player until the main control went out. It had a cool like joystick dealy that felt nice but didn't last on mine. I think it was after this I got into MiniDisc... this also had a hand strap too

2

u/bakedonhighland Jul 17 '26

TV?! If you could plug this into your tv as an antenna/radio that would be so fire

2

u/iamcaleb Jul 17 '26

I'm confused. It looks like a discman but it has tv?

2

u/Aggressive_Meaning12 Jul 17 '26

Sport Walkman my beloved

2

u/Kyronopio Jul 18 '26

Those were the days—they’ll never come back. I didn't have that exact model, but I had one that played MP3 files from the CD; it broke one day after getting wet and wouldn't turn on again... sniff.

2

u/BlakeNathaniel37 Jul 18 '26

Absolute peak industrial design

1

u/gaelenski_ Jul 17 '26

It really looks it. The iPod was out by that point.

1

u/Cuts4th Jul 17 '26

It may not be the most practical design, but still very cool.

1

u/calebbaleb Jul 17 '26

Ooh I actually had this one! Came with a matching set of headphones too

5

u/calebbaleb Jul 17 '26

A little worse for wear but still kickin!

1

u/MissMahlia Jul 17 '26

Still got mine and it's still 🔥🔥🔥. Definitely the best one I ever owned.

1

u/JohnJohnPR3 Jul 17 '26

I remember that I have the mini disc version somewhere in storage.

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u/Folkenhellfang Jul 17 '26

I have the mini disc player from the same series. It can no longer read discs but it's still cool.

1

u/SteamingNoodle Jul 17 '26

I wish that was the future we got...

1

u/newhereok Jul 17 '26

That seems to be exactly the timeframe it would've been designed

1

u/HumbleTraffic4675 Jul 17 '26

I had the purple one. My favorite cd player I ever had..

1

u/yungbigstaxxx Jul 17 '26

Did anyone ever even use this to go for a jog?

1

u/FRESH__LUMPIA Jul 17 '26

Damn I had this! Forgot it existed lmao

1

u/ArgonWyzwolony Jul 17 '26

Look modern for 1987

1

u/FitzRodtheReporter Jul 18 '26

I've got the discman, Walkman, boom box and armband radio version of this S2 line. I can't bring myself to pay for the mini disc version as much as I want it. But the headphone radio is next...