Sony's unique DVD Walkman

The Sony DVD Walkman D-VM1 is a personal DVD player from 2001 with a unique design. They never made anything quite like this ever again.

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[Jamesdallimore]

Have been watching you for about 10 years now. Just wanted to say thank you for remaining such a breathe of fresh air on this platform

[tremorist]

Sadly there wasn't a Laserdisc Walkman. To be worn as a hat.

[noneofyourbusiness]

0:48 - if you're getting bugged by people asking you to bring back the puppets, there is always the clever life hack of becoming the puppet!

[idj]

That made me miss the early 2000s as that was when the DVD format was at its height of popularity. Felt like anything was possible.

[claudiobizama]

Sony seems to be an endless pit of odd forgotten consumer and professional products

[HandyAndyTechTips]

Back in my day, if you owned a portable DVD player with 12V car adapter for watching movies on road trips, you were the coolest kid in school.

[tomarnd]

That screen is clearly one from a Handycam but without the camcorder, cool product

[rockerseven]

I imagine his home is basically an A/V history museum! I love this channel so much. I find out about the most random and obscure A/V formats.

[der.Schtefan]

People successfully ignoring each other in a city is as old as newspapers.

[FranklyPeetoons]

USA viewer here.
Decades ago, I found, in a local Target store on its 'bargain table', a rather large pile of devices very similar to what you are displaying here. I had cash in pocket, so I bought a large amount of them because I was young and reckless. In a relatively short period of time I re-sold them on ebay for amounts of money that, at the time, were amazing to me. It paid my "COBRA" health insurance premiums for over EIGHTEEN MONTHS. In the USA, that was a big deal.

[keenanpather]

I'm about to get my first LaserDisc player this week, I've wanted one since I was in the 6th Grade and now since I'm in first year university and I get monthly allowance I finally saved up for one 7 years later, I watched your LaserDiscs videos a million times growing up. My model is the Pioneer CLD D925 with the remote in beautiful condition plus 53 LD discs. I'm so excited. Funny enough it's the same player you have.

Would love for you to revisit laserdiscs in the future Techmoan!

Love from South Africa 🇿🇦

[antibrevity]

I realize that you won't be interested in doing this as it's too risky for such a rare product, but depending upon the battery unit's construction it might be possible to replace the actual cell inside. This is outside the scope of this channel, but worth mentioning in case someone else has one that they're willing to risk.

[moot]

Was not prepared for the battery reveal 🤣

[yea]

You and @vwestlife seem to make the most perfect videos to watch at Work while on a Lunch Break.
Straight to the point old tech videos.
Phenomenal

[bitwiz_]

The Six Million Dollar Man was one of my favorite shows as a kid in the '70s. I remember drawing up charts of the whole week's prime time schedule so that I knew which nights I needed to be ready to watch something. No VCRs, so if you missed it, you missed it. If you were lucky, you might catch it as rerun a few months later. (They hadn't figured out interleaved reruns yet, so it was the whole season in fall and winter, then the whole season again in spring and summer.)

[Farmeryeti]

This is just the kind of thing I'd have been fascinated by as a kid

Ah, a fresh Techmoan video - it makes my Saturday breakfast a special treat!

[gwheregwhizz]

Before the smartphone, the magic of going to the electronics shop with your salary; CDs, cassette walkmans, boomboxes, midis, hi-fi separates, DVDs, camcorders, cameras, VCRs etc. It made work feel worthwhile coming home with something nice. I miss those days 😢

[mixedhairless]

You stumped me. Never heard of this back in the day and I was at the Sony style shop weekly

[destinycaptain]

In the mid 2000’s I purchased 3 Axiom 3.6 inch Personal DVD players. These were great units. They could play video, broadcast TV if you had the antenna plug in, and CDs. Got them for $60 each that year. Ran them into the dirt.