The Music CD's Birthday?

[David Meek]

Hey, a little debate broke out here at the office. What year were music CD's introduced for the public to buy?




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[John Holmes]

Here you are David. Should be all the ammo you need! :B

http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/cdbasics/cd_intro.htm

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[Burke Strickland]

David -

Here's another resource:

http://www.oneoffcd.com/info/historycd.cfm

...this history of CD indicates that it was launched in Europe and Japan in the fall of 1982 but didn't reach the US until the spring of 1983.

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[David Meek]

Thanks guys.

What started this off was one guys comment about my spending practices in acquiring 500+ albums, 600+ CD's and 340 DVD's. I pointed out that I've been collecting albums since about 1970 and CD's from the mid-80's. Off we went! These guys were saying that CD's hadn't been introduced until the late 80's. Hah. I tried to tell them that I got my first CD deck in Sept. 1985, but they didn't believe me.

It'd really gotten fun if I'd told 'em that I'd gotten rid of around 300 albums as I replaced them on CD! Don't groan, I know, I know. I should have kept them.

edited for content: 08/08/2002




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[John Holmes]

Glad to help out David!

I bought my first player early 86'. What's funny, I owned a laserdisc player before I owned a cd player. It took me a bit to accept that cd's were good for me. :LOL:




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[George Bellefontaine]

Same here, John. I still lean a little toward vinyl in my preferences.




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[David Meek]

I still lean a little toward vinyl in my preferences

Unfortunately, so do I. Unfortunate in the sense that I got rid of all those albums after getting caught up on the technology wave of CD's. If I'd heard vinyl played on a proper system earlier, I'd still have a lot (all?) of those "goners".

Oh, I got the date on my CD deck wrong. It was September of '85.




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[John Holmes]

Hey David,

What did your friends say when you gave them the info about cd's consumer dates?

Oh, I understand about getting rid of those babies a little early. I let a few go thinking that I may move on too! Glad we came to our senses before it was too late.

George,

I wish I could afford to truly due my vinyl justice with better 2ch equipment. The biggest thrill of it for me now, is having all the hard to find stuff. And not having to purchase it again to enjoy it. Even on my system, albums still sound pretty good!




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[David Meek]

John,

I haven't had the chance to gloat yet! Now I'm at our offices on the West side of town. Maybe tomorrow.




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