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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.
The first commercial compact disc was produced on 17 August 1982, a 1979 recording of Chopin waltzes performed by Claudio Arrau. [37] The first 50 titles were released in Japan on 1 October 1982, [38] the first of which was a re-release of the Billy Joel album 52nd Street. [39] The first CD played on BBC Radio was in October 1982. [citation needed]
After their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984. [14] By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and, by 1992, CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music-cassette ...
Sony DADC's first plant, in Terre Haute, Indiana, opened May 2, 1983, [1] and produced its first CD, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A., in September 1984. [2] It was the first CD manufacturer in the United States, is the company's principal CD manufacturing facility, and is the company's research and development center.
During the latest episode of the podcast New Heights—which often finds brothers Travis and Jason Kelce reminiscing on noteworthy childhood moments—they recalled the time their father chucked ...
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 Beatles – Yesterday and Today (Capitol, US album in ‘butcher’ sleeve, 1966). A sealed mint "first state" stereo copy sold for US$125,000 in February 2016, [11] unsealed mint copies of this pressing have regularly sold for well over $15,000. Other pressings and states are also available, in both mono and stereo with prices ranging from ...
The CD-i player 100 series, which consisted of the three-unit 180/181/182 professional system, first demonstrated at the CD-ROM Conference in March 1988. The CD-i player 200 series, which includes the 205, 210, and 220 models. Models in the 200 series were designed for general consumption, and were available at major home electronics outlets ...