"On 17 August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world's first compact disc at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany."
"The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was 'The Visitors' by ABBA."
How time flies, seems like only yesterday I was in the store loking at vinyl records.
I was at the Audio Engineering Society meeting where they first demo'd it for the public. The first sample was a terrible recording of a piano concerto. And there was lots of grumbling about the 44.1KHz sampling rate. "Wait another year to get it up to a higher sampling rate!" was the cry. But the technology wasn't ready, and the marketing guys were, so away they went.
That's a long time. I guess Philips wouldn't have thought the way CDs will explode in consumer market.
A little off the topic : Only 5 years ago, CD writing was still a 'fashion' here in my place. Today writing CDs has become a daily routine, with CDs costing less then 50 cents.
Hail the technology. Now waiting for the Blu-Ray RW Discs.
The news article about the 25th anniversary I saw in the paper while I was at the beach said this about the first CD produced, which I just snagged off the first CD history site I found online: "The first CD that was pressed in Hanover was a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauß." (source http://www.cdman.com/technical/howdocdswork7.html )
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
"On 17 August 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world's first compact disc at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany."
"The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was 'The Visitors' by ABBA."
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7304
I KNEW ABBA was influential! See!!?!?
-=- Steve
"If the moon were made of ribs, would you eat it?"
