History Of Cd Players
A new use for the record player.
History of cd players. Almost all today s cd players can play these 8 cm discs. Cd players may be part of home stereo systems car audio systems. Compact discs themselves were at first extremely expensive at 30 each. There were also 17 cm ep extended play discs with a playing time of 6 to 8 minutes.
First factory installed in dash cd player while sony had introduced an in dash player the previous year becker s mexico compact disc was the first to be factory installed in benzes of. The sound quality was low and it could take as long as 8 hours to write a single disc from a pc drive but with an average cost of about 17 to 20 per cd in stores it didn t take long before these discs readable by any cd player became a mainstay. A cd player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs which are a digital optical disc data storage format. The cd x1 featured two original lsis developed and manufactured in house.
Let s take a look back at how the dvd came saw and conquered before fading away in the exact fashion that it took the world by storm. They connected audio mixers to record players guided their hands along the records so they scratched against the needle and produced a new rhythmic instrument of sorts. Sony introduced the cdp 101 the first cd audio player to market on october 1 1982 at 900. Hip hop djs used record player turntables in a new and creative way through the 80s 90s and beyond.
Cds typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. Cd players were first sold to consumers in 1982. The history of the cd the beginning while experimenting with equipment to record morse signals automatically the 30 year old thomas alva edison accidentally discovered in 1877 that he had recorded sounds that resembled a human voice. As the first players surfaced on the market that year the compact disc format began to attract widespread usage and popularity in japan and europe.
The 8 cm cd single was launched to take over the singles function with a maximum playing time of around 20 minutes and the same sound quality as a normal 12 cm cd.