Happy Birthday to Compact Disc (CD)


	Happy Birthday to Compact Disc (CD)

CarnivalBorn

8-16-2007 11:30 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9a8aa438-5d02-447e-ade3-810957d18ba3/95F132AA-4D7B-4CD5-B123-BBA10EBAA8D5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/" href="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.pcnews.ro</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">Exactly 25 years ago tomorrow, on August 17, 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world’s first compact disc</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The invention of the CD ushered in a technological revolution in the music industry as CDs – with their superior sound quality and scratch free durability – marked the beginning of the shift from analogue to digital music technology.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The Philips factory in Germany, where the world’s first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was “The Visitors” by <SPAN class="caps">ABBA</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The first CDs and CD players – including Philips’ <SPAN class="caps">CD100 </SPAN>– were introduced in Japan in November, followed by a US and European market introduction in March of 1983</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">Philips and Sony partnered to develop <SPAN class="caps">CD</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">As early as 1979, Philips and Sony set up a joint task force of engineers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The original target storage capacity for a CD was one hour of audio content, and a disc diameter of 115 mm was sufficient for this</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">Over 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide over the past 25 years</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/95F132AA-4D7B-4CD5-B123-BBA10EBAA8D5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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