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17 August 2007, 17:04

The CD celebrates its 25th anniversary

The compact disc has turned 25 on August 17. The technology was jointly developed by Philips and Sony and the first CD was manufactured in Germany on August 17, 1982. Since then 200 billion CD have been sold worldwide.

In the beginning it was mostly classical music sold on CDs as manufacturers believed that classical music lovers were more likely to pay the high price for the CDs and CD players. The first pop CD on sale was ABBA’s The Visitors.

By 1988 CDs outsold records. Now some reports predict that this format in turn will be overtaken by digital distribution on global scale by 2011.

Read more:
Compact disc hits 25th birthday, BBC News
Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary, The Washington Post
The 25th Anniversary Of The CD, Hypebot

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1. by CAIC, 4 September 2007, 12:40

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2. by m.e.otten, 23 September 2007, 14:11

In 1981 I heard of the then comming new and unknown Compact Disk. I inmemiatly realised: this would be the end of the common records (78-33 and 45 rpm records) I sold my records collection and made a fair price. Now I got even more CD's thenn I use to had as records. I am still very pleased with the CD although I also think the mp3 and the i-pod will beat the CD in time.

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4. by John Sposato, 3 December 2007, 08:04

I have a CD copy of "The Visitors", but it's a French one from a little later. I do have Jon and Vangelis's "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", also on Polydor, which appears to be an early pressing, making it the oldest manufactured CD in my vast collection. Sure, sites like this are changing the rules, but I still look for imports and rare finds. I remember when CDs were expensive, and players could only hold one at a time. One chemist in my area used to rent them out with the videos, but I think people stole them. The library still gets them, though. How far we've come!

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