Old Sony Devices

[SoThankful]

I enjoy taking photos and videos with older devices to capture a more vintage look. Someone who recently passed away left me their old Sony camera, but it didn’t come with the USB cable. While I can replace it, it’s not one of those cables most people have on hand.


As a workaround for now, I remove the Memory Stick and insert it into my PSP, which lets me view the photos more clearly or transfer them to my computer. It’s kind of great that my PSP has gained another practical use, and I think it’s really cool how interconnected they are.


Do you guys still use old Sony devices, or have any fun or quirky experiences like this?

 

[TheMinuMaster]

The PSP and PS Vita cameras really have a great vibe. I usually take photos of my cat with the PS Vita, and they turn out really cool.

 

[SoThankful]

The PSP and PS Vita cameras really have a great vibe. I usually take photos of my cat with the PS Vita, and they turn out really cool.

Good one! I can use the PSP's camera itself too. Gonna try to use it a little more.

 

[dkpopman]

I use this dream machine radio clock on my nightstand. one of my favorite devices.

 

[TheMinuMaster]

Good one! I can use the PSP's camera itself too. Gonna try to use it a little more.

I remember some time ago seeing professional photographers using the PSP and the Game Boy Color — everyday scenes and cars, all of them really cool. So if you ever take an epic photo, I’d love to see it.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

I still have a Sony Walkman though the cassette player is long busted the AM/FM radio receiver is still working. It’s really quite handy during power outages whenever there’s a typhoon here.

Also there’s this PSP in perfect running condition that I have to change the battery almost year after year.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I have a Walkman and a couple of Sony Ericssons.

I'm still blown away by the quality those measly mid-aughts cameras were able to pull.

 

[bjork]

I have a Watchman but it's more of a paperweight than anything I will use. Still, keep it around because it's neat. Also found an entire Vaio computer that I forgot about, upstairs in the extra bedroom. Probably circa 2002 or so, if I had to guess? I haven't had time to hook it up yet.

 

[SoThankful]

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I use this dream machine radio clock on my nightstand. one of my favorite devices.

Thanks for sharing, looks nice. The smiski likes it too (I only know what that is because of my friend ).

 

[calvinium]

I had a Sony Cybershot DSC-F505 camera that took MemoryStick media purchased back in 1999, along with a Sony MZ-R55 Minidisc Walkman. The camera was stolen in a house break-in but the Minidisc player is still functional, and has outlasted 2 of the 3 newer units I bought back in the day after they introduced the "long-play" formats and the "NetMD" which allowed copy of tracks over USB instead of having to dub the discs (albeit through proprietary Sony software). It's solid aluminium, compared to the plastic bodied siblings. The LCD got cracked after receiving a direct knock on a bus, but the OLED screens of the newer models died much sooner.

The R55's original remote has a backlit LCD that's still functional though. I loved those remotes, although I remember freaking out a girl that I was chatting up on a bus once because she thought the remote clipped to my backpack strap was a mic and I was recording our conversation

(illustration purposes only. not my actual remote)

 

[secreto7]

As a kid I had been gifted a journalistic cassette recorder wit microphone but I ended using it to record music from games.

I have some Sony earplugs that survived the washing machine since I had forgot them in a pocket. They are still well functioning to this day.

 

[skramz]

sure, i have a psp, and i had a discman till i got an ipod...

 

[Zerpina]

In 1946, SONY was founded, and their first product?

A radio? No.
A reel-to-reel? No.
Some sort of record player? No.
Without this simple household appliance, you may not have PlayStation.

A Rice cooker

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*Edit
And i bet that rice cooker would STILL work..
Unlike today's POS electronics....

 

[Blamhammer]

Sony MZ-R55 Minidisc Walkman

I had a MZ-R50. I'm pretty sure the R series players are treasures amongst the MD fanbase, very cool to get 1:1 copies of CDs onto that thing.
The R50 I had failed and finding a new mechanical drive is impossible. For lols I fed the digital audio out from a console through the player and had it act as a audio out. The DAC chip on these players are meant to be good, and sure enough it sounds great!

Sadly the player has a auto off after 20 mins so that ended that little experiement.

All the older Sony recordable portable players were awesome. I had a WM-F2, but sadly it failed too (probably needed a new belt, but I did not have the time to repair it).

Sony WM-F2 ▶ Walkman.land

The WM-F2 was a remarkably well-featured unit. Contained radio and could record, either from the radio or from an external source.

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Sold it to someone in Vietnam, I hope they fixed it up.

 

[NeonKnights]

I have had quite a few Sony walkman/discman cd players over the years.
Now the only one I still have is this blue D-E330 that my ex got me to replace my old broken Sony mp3 cd player back in 2010. It still works and I've been listening to Revolver on repeat, from The Beatles in Mono collection recently. The only other older Sony device I still use is my Sony VAIO laptop from the 2010s that still works great, has a disc drive and runs Linux Mint.

 

[PlainnameWTF]

I still my PSP. But sadly, it doesn't work and I'm planning to repair it soon and install CFW. I used to have a PS2. But my dad told me to give it to one of my friends. I only have the Memory Cards and some of the games since it's just the console I was forced to give away.

 

[ThunderBoy]

I always wanted to have a Sony MiniDisc.