The CD is 30 years old today
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The CD is 30 years old today
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Re: The CD is 30 years old today
#2Funny, I still remember buying my first CD as a kid, Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls (ouch!). The packaging back then was different and they'd put the CDs in long boxes whereas now you just buy it in the jewel case. I remember how cool it was getting a boombox that had a tape deck and a CD player and being able to make better mixtapes.
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#3I'm freakin' out that /. is exactly half the age of the CD.
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#4This article also reminds me of where I used to pick up CD's back when they first came out - Tower Records in Mountain View, CA. CD's - still around; Tower Records - not so much. Interesting how it all worked out.
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#5http://article.olduse.net/7038@philabs.UUCP
That's the second ever mention of the CD made on Usenet, back in July 1982.
"It has no grooves, the digitally encoded recording lies beneath the disc surface, invulnerable to dirt and damage."
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#6After reading this I just had to check just to see if we had a copy of 52nd Street, yep - https://www.murfie.com/albums/billy-joel-52nd-street--2
Re: The CD is 30 years old today
#7Funny, I still remember buying my first CD as a kid, Motley Crue's Girls, Girls, Girls (ouch!). The packaging back then was different and they'd put the CDs in long boxes whereas now you just buy it in the jewel case. I remember how cool it was getting a boombox that had a tape deck and a CD player and being able to make better mixtapes.
Long boxes so that when you put them into the place where the store used to display LP albums the title was still at a comfortable reading height.
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#8I remember when Sun Micro decided they could give their customers CDROM drives and save money shipping SunOS on CD rather than quarter inch tape (QIC). As I recall they were the first to do that. I also remember Eric Schmidt cringing at the price of buying a 'gold master' machine that could cut a master disk for the replication services.
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#9When is the music industry going to actively promote (and select) a high definition music format? Like, Blu-Ray for audio-only?
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#10When is the music industry going to actively promote (and select) a high definition music format? Like, Blu-Ray for audio-only?
Is there a problem with the current format lacking definition?
I thought the major factor for listening quality was listening equipment rather than the actual format (as the quality on cds is rather good).