Sony Watchman

Watchman is a trademark of Sony for very small portable televisions ( " pocket TV "). The first Sony Watchman was presented under the model designation FD -210 in 1982. The device has a specially designed flat picture tube, in which the image information is considered on the tube inside. The viewable screen is 2 inches, which is about 5 centimeters. It measures 87 × 198 × 33 mm and weighs about 650 grams ready. The picture tube itself is only 16.5 mm thick. Initially, the device in Japan at a price of 54,800 yen (then equivalent to about DM 560 and 285 euros ) was offered, a short time later in the U.S. and Europe. The model for the European market (FD- 210BE ) was functional in almost all countries of Western Europe, only in France failed reception at the TV standard used there "L".

In the following years, more than a dozen different models have been presented with the same picture tube technology, the diagonal achieved growth of 3 to 4 inches ( 7.5 and 10 cm). The most widespread are the models FD -2 and FD- 10, both with the original 2-inch tube. Following the Sports Walkman, a water-resistant cassette player from the house of Sony, was published in 1986 even a splashproof TV, the Sports Watchman FD- 45th

In 1990, the Watchman was colored, the FDL - 310, the flat picture tube for the first time gave a colored LCD display with thin film transistor technology. This display was later used for a number of other models, including the "TV kit " FDL - 330S, in which the desired components (display, tuner, speaker, battery box ) can be put together as needed to a cube-shaped object.