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   When did CDs first come out?

   • Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Thirty-three years ago this month, in March 1983, America got its first whirl at the compact disc. CDs first launched in Japan, but they didn’t make their way to the States until several months later.

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   When did the first CD drive come out?

   • The first commercial CD drive was released a month earlier by Sony on 1st of October 1982, making it a notable event in the history of CD development. The CDP-101 Compact Disc Player by Sony hit the market first in Japan, followed by Europe. It did not reach the shores of America until the early part of 1983.

   The history and evolution of the compact disc (CD)

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   How much did the first CD cost?

   • But it was March of 1983 that saw the first compact discs hitting the U.S. market. Early CDs cost about $15, which CNN estimates was about $35 in 2012 money (when they did their compact disc retrospective). The first CD-only record label, Rykodisc, followed in January 1984.

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   What is the history of the CD?

   • Below, we delve into the history of the CD and its evolution. The story of the CD started way back in 1957 with experiments involving the rudimentary video disc by the Italian Antonio Rubbiani, that stimulated an entire generation of scientists to think along the lines of digital technology.

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   When were CDs made available to the public?

   • CDs were made available to the public in 1982 and they quickly became the most efficient way of storing music. Before CDs, music was stored and played on vinyl and cassette tapes. Vinyl discs were a lot bigger than CDs and could be broken easily. Cassette tapes used magnetic tape, and the music played through from left to right.

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   Who invented the compact disc (CD)?

   • In the late 1970s, the two companies Philips and Sony, separately developed prototypes in a bid to become the first to develop the Compact Disc (CD). Below, we delve into the history of the CD and its evolution.

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   Mar 2, 2016 · Thirty-three years ago this month, in March 1983, America got its first whirl at the compact disc. CDs first launched in Japan, but they didn’t make their way to the States until several...

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   Feb 7, 2018 · Born, as Sony states, nearly 100 years after the first phonograph player, the CDP-101 made its way to the U.S. (and across the globe) around six to seven months after its initial debut in 1983,...

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   Mar 12, 2019 · Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc (CD). The CD was invented in 1979.

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   By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette tapes. [15][16] The success of the compact disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, which together agreed upon and developed compatible hardware.

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   Mar 6, 2024 · The invention of the standard compact disc revolutionized the way music, data, and later video were stored and distributed, marking a significant leap from analog to digital storage media. Developed jointly by Philips and Sony, the CD format was finalized in 1982 and famously documented in the Red Book standard.

   • A compact disc or CD is a disc that's made of plastic and used to store data such as video, audio and text files. Compact discs replaced floppy dis...
   • CDs replaced cassettes starting in 1991. By the late 2010s, CDs were on their way out, replaced by streaming music and digital downloads.
   • DVD stands for digital versatile disc or digital video disc.
   • Streaming services have already pretty much replaced discs, including DVDs. The growth of the streaming industry is going to make DVDs even more ob...
   • You can copy your CD to an MP3 file and move that to a USB drive. Or connect the USB cable to your external USB device and the other end to the USB...

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   It did not reach the shores of America until the early part of 1983. Sony beat Philips once again for a second time when it released the first portable CD player in the year 1984. The time was ripe for commercial CDs to make a foray into the market.

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   Mar 2, 2023 · But it was March of 1983 that saw the first compact discs hitting the U.S. market. Early CDs cost about $15, which CNN estimates was about $35 in 2012 money (when they did their compact disc retrospective). The first CD-only record label, Rykodisc, followed in January 1984.