The CD Turns 25 Today 326
netbuzz writes "Seems like only yesterday to those of us of a certain age, but the CD turns 25 today. Philips, maker of the first CD on Aug. 17, 1982, estimates that more than 200 billion have been sold since. The younger set might have trouble appreciating the difference in auditory quality that the compact disc represented over vinyl or cassette tapes (some have probably never even seen a record). And all but true trivia buffs will have trouble coming up with the name of the artist on that first disc."
Happy Birthday! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Happy Birthday! (Score:4, Funny)
What a sad begining... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:cue the... (Score:5, Funny)
Cue the vinyl fanatics who will whine about how "warm" their vinyls sound
Don't worry. I think I've managed to kill tham all.
Re:sad (Score:3, Funny)
Nowadays my mom still calls DVDs "CDs." Baby steps..
Re:The First Discs Were Not ABBA (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What a sad begining... (Score:3, Funny)
So sayeth the ABBA mouse. So shall it be done.
200 Billion? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The First Discs Were Not ABBA (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The First Discs Were Not ABBA (Score:3, Funny)
My first disc was Squeeze's Babylon and On, and the thing that first amazed me was not the sound quality but how soon you heard the music after pressing "play"... no tape leader to wait through.
Also, the first time I opened that Squeeze jewel case, the CD was rotated exactly correctly (so the text on the CD was oriented the right way) and thus, ever since, my slightly OCD self has always put CDs back in their jewel cases right side up. My wife gives me heck for this, and often threatens to go downstairs and start randomly rotating CDs when she wants to get under my skin.
All you players and posers never owned an 8 track! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The 74-minute story (Score:3, Funny)
IIRC the composer wrote "as slow as possible," so some gang of fools come in and move a couple sandbags every few days (onto different organ keys), and the piece will finish on the 100th anniversary of Cage's birth or some such.
like at this story [bbc.co.uk]
Re:CD vs. vinyl audio quality (Score:3, Funny)
Oh really?
Of course. This is trivially provable - vinyl has to store all the extra information about where the scratchs, pops, crackles and worn-out grooves are. You don't get that information on CDs!