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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 become the dominant standard for ...
Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s. [11] Although originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, [12] the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. [13] In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital ...
The 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 launch date.
The following is a list of products manufactured under the Sony Ericsson brand.Most of the models have been released under multiple names, depending on region of release, currently usually indicated by a letter added to the end of the model number ('i' for international, 'a' for North America, and 'c' for mainland China), but indicated on some (mostly older) models by a slightly differing ...
The National Film Registry has added 25 new films to its archive at the Library of Congress, including Dirty Dancing, No Country for Old Men and The Social Network.. Since it was founded in 1988 ...
iFP-790 256 MB 2.0 iFP-795 512 MB iFP-799 1 GB iFP-800 (Craft II) [8] 2004 iFP-880 128 MB 4-line monochrome with backlight Yes Yes MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG Vorbis 4-pin Mini B USB, stereo 3.5 mm, Line in 1.1 AA iFP-890 256 MB 2.0 iFP-895 512 MB iFP-899 1 GB iFP-900 (MasterPiece II) [9] 2004 iFP-990 256 MB Colour LCD with backlight Yes Yes
The original Betacam format was launched on August 7, 1982. It is an analog component video format, storing the luminance, "Y", in one track and the chrominance, on another as alternating segments of the R-Y and B-Y components performing Compressed Time Division Multiplex, or CTDM. [3]
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