Happy Birthday - Compact Disc Turns 25

[admin]

With so much in doubt about the future of the CD it's easy to overlook that on Friday the Compact Disc format will turn 25. In Germany the world's first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram – the recording company not-so-coincidentally owned by Philips. The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was "The Visitors" by ABBA. Yeah, baby. CDs were introduced on the market in November 1982 with a healthy catalogue of around 150 titles - most of which feel under the category of classical music.


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[stratman]

And my love affair will continue with it, with all the DRM crap going around and i-Tunes, forget it I'd rather have something tangible in my hands that I can copy as many time as I want.

[obscbyclouds]

And my love affair will continue with it, with all the DRM crap going around and i-Tunes, forget it I'd rather have something tangible in my hands that I can copy as many time as I want.

Amen to that brother! Happy birthday CD! Although that does make me feel old....

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

For all the concern of digital piracy its still impossible to find a copy of the Japanese pressing of Dark Side Of The Moon (with the black triangle).

[Adam]

For all the concern of digital piracy its still impossible to find a copy of the Japanese pressing of Dark Side Of The Moon (with the black triangle).

Would you want something like this?

[edmcanuck]

For the record, "The Visitors" being the first CD ever has, I think, become pretty established as an urban legend. While it was amongst the first, when Sony was releasing the original CD player, they also released a catalog of 50 CDs to the market which all comprised the first CD releases as a group. "52nd Street" by Billy Joel is commonly cited as the first of those to ship and is more generally thought of as the first CD ever available to consumers.

[Seth=L]

YEAH, CD 100, ROCK ON!

I still have two mid-80's Magnavox disc spinners with SPDIF output and CDM style transports (non-linear drive).

[jeffsg4mac]

I remember my first player. It was a little square sony cube thing. I hated the form factor but loved the player. I had at the time about 150 LP's and I sold them all but a select few within 2 months. I wish I could remember what my first CD was. It Might have been Spyra Gyra.

[Seth=L]

I remember my first player. It was a little square sony cube thing. I hated the form factor but loved the player. I had at the time about 150 LP's and I sold them all but a select few within 2 months. I wish I could remember what my first CD was. It Might have been Spyra Gyra.

My first CD was Heart Little Queen, I still have it in faily mint condition. It is one of my finer recordings as well.

[Lady Phoenix]

Amen to that brother! Happy birthday CD! Although that does make me feel old....

Me, too! Back in my day...

But seriously, it seems like CDs haven't been around for that long. It's probably just that I didn't jump on the CD bandwagon until they'd been around for a while.