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  2. Sony CDP-101 - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. CD player - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Compact disc - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Sony hasn’t been this hot since it made the Walkman - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia

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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

  7. Discman - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of Japanese inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. List of Sony Walkman products - Wikipedia

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    First Walkman model WM-2 1981 32000 ¥ WM-1 1981 WM-3 1981 TPS-L2 renamed. Sold in black instead of blue. WM-5 1982 Japan/USA WM-7 1982 36000 ¥ WM-D6 1982 WM-DD 1982 28000 ¥ WM-F2 1982 42000 ¥ WM-R2 1982 37000 ¥ WM-20 1983 27000 ¥ WM-F20 1983 FM radio WM-4 1983 WM-9 1983 Japan WM-10 1983 Smallest cassette Walkman. Must be extended before use.