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- 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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Sep 18, 2022 · The arrival of the CD in 1981 changed the music world forever. In April 1981, when star conductor Herbert von Karajan launched the marketing of the "Compact Disc" together with representatives of...
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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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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.
2 min read. The Compact Disc format changed the way we listened to music in the 1980s. Sony's first player, the CDP-101, went on sale on October 1, 1982, in Japan, and six months later here...
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.
Feb 7, 2018 · Most often attributed to inventor James Russell, the CD evolved from multiple optical mediums, and was eventually finalized in 1980 when Sony and Philips created the famed “Red Book” standard ...
In later years, the compact disc was adapted for non-audio computer data storage purposes as CD-ROM and its derivatives. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc technology to be invented, after the much larger LaserDisc (LD).
