Saturday, August 18, 2007
Break open the bubbly because the spinning media is 25 years old!!!
On August 17, 1982, an assembly line in a suburb of Hanover, Germany began manufacturing the laser-encoded palm-sized discs.
There is some argument on what was the very first CD ever pressed, according to Phillips it was ABBA's The Visitors. However, the first commercially available CD was Dire Straits Brothers In Arms and in Australia the very first CD was Whispering Jack by John Farnham in 1986.
However, the CD has evolved into much newer formats as the outlook for the Compact Disc looks like it will be life extinct within the next 10 years. Audio CDs are rapidly being replaced with digital music players, CD-ROMs have been scrapped for the higher capacity DVD-ROM format, and rewritable CD sales are on a decline.
There is some argument on what was the very first CD ever pressed, according to Phillips it was ABBA's The Visitors. However, the first commercially available CD was Dire Straits Brothers In Arms and in Australia the very first CD was Whispering Jack by John Farnham in 1986.
However, the CD has evolved into much newer formats as the outlook for the Compact Disc looks like it will be life extinct within the next 10 years. Audio CDs are rapidly being replaced with digital music players, CD-ROMs have been scrapped for the higher capacity DVD-ROM format, and rewritable CD sales are on a decline.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 10:14 PM 
