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Sony CDP-101 Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially released compact disc player. [1] The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen (approx US$730). [2] The Japan-only launch was partially because Philips, Sony's partner in the development of the CD format, was unable to meet the original agreed ...
The first CD played on BBC Radio was in October 1982. [citation needed] The Japanese launch was followed on 14 March 1983 by the introduction of CD players and discs to Europe [37] and North America where CBS Records released sixteen titles. [38] The first artist to sell a million copies on CD was Dire Straits, with their 1985 album Brothers in ...
Sony CDP-101 from 1982, the first commercially released CD player for consumers Philips CD100 from 1983, the first commercially released CD player in the USA and Europe American inventor James T. Russell is known for inventing the first system to record digital video information on an optical transparent foil that is lit from behind by a high ...
The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released in October 1982 in Japan. The format gained worldwide acceptance in 1983–84, selling more than a million CD players in its first two years, to play 22.5 million discs, [2] before overtaking records and cassette tapes to
Sony's compact digital audio disc, 4.75-inches in diameter, is loaded into a laser disc player in 1982. - Katsumi Kasahara/AP A customer checks out a Sony Corp. digital camcorder in an electronics ...
By August 1983 the company was able to produce a CD player which was one-tenth the size of the original, and a portable CD player became a possibility. [citation needed] The aim was to create a player that was the same size as four CD cases stacked on top of each other. A piece of wood 13.4 cm across and about 4 cm thick was shown to the staff ...
By 1999, 20 years after the introduction of the first model, Sony sold 186 million cassette Walkmans. [26] Portable compact disc players led to the decline of the cassette Walkman, [27] which was discontinued in Japan in 2010. [28] The last cassette-based model available in the US was the WM-FX290W, [29] [30] which was first released in 2004. [31]
A jewel case is a compact disc case that has been used since the compact disc was first released in 1982. It is a three-piece plastic case, measuring 142 by 125 by 10 millimetres (5.59 in × 4.92 in × 0.39 in), a volume of 177.5 cubic centimetres (10.83 cu in), which usually contains a compact disc along with the liner notes and a back card.