Speeple News Search

Sign Up! | Tags | Domains | Statistics | Options | Advanced Search

The CD is 25 years old today!

msdn.com » 2007 » August » 17th » The CD is 25 years old today!

Tagged: music, audio, cd, compact disc

On August 17, 1982, Philips manufactured the world's first compact disc, so it's 25 today. For those of you who think the world was in black and white back then too, here's some trivia to educate you ;-) The CD was jointly developed by Philips and Sony The first CD players cost about UK£1000/$2000/€1300 at today's rate (!) More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide The companies Continue Reading »


Latest news from Ronan Geraghty's Blog:

  1. Networking seminar - Intelligent outsourcing for export success
  2. BizSpark Ireland / Northern Ireland Newsletter content, May 2009
  3. Windows 7 ISV Remediation (App Compat) Workshops, Dublin, June 15th-19th 2009
  4. (Free) 2 day Windows 7 Developer Training, Dublin: June 11th & 12th 2009
  5. New Windows 7 App Compat Resource for ISVs in Ireland / Northern Ireland

Latest news from msdn.com:

  1. ReMIX Tokyo 参加登録締切迫る
  2. 7 月のわんくま勉強会
  3. NT Commitee 2 関東勉強会のご案内
  4. TechEd に参加すると手に入るもの
  5. TechEd のバナーを是非ご活用ください