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11 hours ago · Watch PopMech's Andrew Daniels explain how Sony and Philips turned competition into collaboration, leading to the portable music revolution. ... When the compact disc hit America in the 1980s, it ...
2 days ago · The true origin of the CD is difficult to pinpoint. First, there were sampling theorems regarding the conversion of audio into digital format. Then there was experimentation involving the rudimentary video disc by Antonia Rubbiani in 1957. Then in the late 70s, research on laser and optical disc technology became the focus of Sony and Philips.
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3 days ago · What the books say about the first CD burner. As best I can tell, the Sony CDW-900e one of the first CD burners. Sony, Philips, and Yamaha all put drives in the market in late 1991 or early 1992. Books about CD recording from the 1990s generally say that Yamaha, Sony, and Phillips all released CD recorders around the same time.
2 days ago · In 1979, Sony, Philips, and PolyGram, led by Philips’ researcher Kees Schouhammer Immink and Piet Kramer, head of the company’s optical research group, began collaboration on a form of Russell’s system called the compact disc or CD.
3 days ago · In the early 1990s, two high-density optical storage standards were being developed: one was the MultiMedia Compact Disc (MMCD), backed by Philips and Sony, and the other was the Super Density Disc (SD), supported by Toshiba and many others. Philips and Sony abandoned their MMCD format and agreed upon Toshiba's SD format with only one modification.
5 days ago · Compact disk players, commonly known as CD players, are electronic devices designed to play audio and data CDs. They became popular in the 1980s as a replacement for vinyl records and cassette tapes, offering improved sound quality and durability.
5 days ago · The thrifty shopper found a Sony 400 Disc Changer, which holds multiple CDs, along with other equipment.
