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A top-loading, Magnavox-brand LaserDisc player with the lid open A front-loading, Pioneer CLD-1030 CD/CDV/LD player. The earliest players employed gas helium–neon laser tubes to read discs and had a red-orange light with a wavelength of 632.8 nm, while later solid-state players used infrared semiconductor laser diodes with a wavelength of 780 nm.
US BB 1 – Apr 1980, Netherlands 1 – Apr 1980, Austria 1 – Jul 1980, Switzerland 1 – May 1980, Norway 1 – Jul 1980, Germany 1 – Jun 1980, UK 2 – May 1980, Sweden (alt) 2 – Jun 1980, US BB 4 of 1980, POP 5 of 1980, Scrobulate 7 of disco, Australia 9 of 1980, US CashBox 10 of 1980, Germany 14 of the 1980s, Italy 30 of 1980, RYM 73 ...
The introduction of the CD, along with the portable Discman player in 1984, [60] began the displacement of LPs in the 1980s as the standard album format for the music industry. [37] According to Hogan, "the spread of cassettes and CDs in the '80s broke up the album with home taping and easier song skipping". [ 49 ]
The salsa music had developed in the 1960s and '70s by Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants to the New York City area but did not enter into mainstream popularity in Latin America until the late 1980s. The salsa music became together with cumbia the two most popular dance music but did not penetrate other countries outside the Caribbean as cumbia did.
A 1980s-era Denon CD player with the chassis cover removed to show the electronic and mechanical components. An example of a Pioneer CD player's tray closing. Sony released its CDP-101 CD player [44] in 1982 with a slide-out tray design for the CD. As it was easy to manufacture and to use, most CD player manufacturers stayed with the tray style ...
In the CD era (post 1983), the top line Nakamichi products were termed the "Dragon." The Dragon-CT turntable ("Computing Turntable") automatically adjusted for off-center holes in records by moving the platter in two dimensions. The Dragon CD playing system has special mechanical damping to prevent vibrations of the CD and holds multiple CDs.
The band emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum studio albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation and popularity. Cinderella initially had a glam metal sound throughout the late 1980s before shifting into a more blues rock-based sound during the early to mid 1990s. [1] [2]
From 1997, Sony's Discman range of portable compact disc (CD) players started to rebrand as CD Walkman. [46] In 2000, the Walkman brand (the entire range) was unified, and a new small icon, "W.", was made for the branding. [45] From 2012, Walkman was also the name of the music player software on Sony Xperia. It has since been rebranded to Music.