That’s very interesting! Around me, we called them CD Players, it must be a regional thing. Many people called the portable cassette player a Walkman, even though that was a lineup of products from Sony.

Looking on US Amazon, there are several players that have Discman, Walkman, or both in the titles. Sony must not be enforcing their trademarks (wrong term?) for the first non-sponsored listing being called:

2000mAh Rechargeable Discman CD Player:Walkman CD Player…

Yepp, we all called them Discman back in the day regardless of the brand.

I believe other brands have the same problem.

Velcro is a good example.

Yeah we called them all discman too. A Kleenex/tissue situation imo.

Edit: though I do concede an official label in some sort of display probably should use the generic form “portable CD player” or something similar.

generally people refer to any such portable CD player as "discman". At least where I live.

Yeah, and there's people that call them Kleenex, Velcro, and iPads. That doesn't make them right.

There's no confusion - Discman is the model of Sony's portable CD players. People using the term incorrectly is simply that.