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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.
A portable CD player. A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks.
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'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 ...
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
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 ...
CD player Sony released the world's first CD Player, called the CDP-101, [141] in 1982, using a slide-out tray design for the Compact Disc. Physical modelling synthesis The first commercially available physical modelling synthesizer was Yamaha's VL-1 in 1994. [142] Commercial digital recording
1982 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1982nd ... Sony launches the first consumer compact disc (CD) player (model CDP-101).