Sony and Philips, which brought to market the laserdisc in 1978, began developing the compact disc in ... on ever-more data-rich discs. Eight years after the CD's arrival, it became the dominant ...

Sony in Japan and Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands, had invented the compact-disc hardware ... radio stations and even CD-friendly stars such as Stevie Wonder. The disc kicked in by the late ...

Sony had debuted CD players in Japan in October 1982 and ... $8 billion in industry revenue just for 1992 alone. The compact disc player had become the fastest-growing home entertainment product ...

In 1980 Philips and Sony produced their Red Book, which laid down all the standards for compact discs. From that time on the companies worked separately on their own CD equipment but in the early days ...

“The digital compact disk and player ... Things began to improve in 1984 when Sony converted a record plant in Terre Haute, Ind., to CD manufacturing. The first disc off that line?

If you were around in the early '90s or are a video game history buff, you might be aware of the Compact Disc Interactive format (CD-i for short), but Sony's involvement and the plans for the ...

The CDP-101: Sony creates a legend The World's First ... the moment in the late ’90s when we first discovered the CD-R (Compact Disc Recordable). Developed in 1988, the CD-R took flight when ...

"We tend to distance ourselves from being linked with CD deterioration." But Philips, which co-developed the compact disc with Sony, said CD deterioration was an isolated problem. "The reason for the ...

When the CD made its public debut in December ... an upgraded version of the compact disc co-developed by the OGs of the technology, Sony and Philips. An SACD could store more than four gigabytes ...

They called it: the ‘compact disc’, known today as the CD ... in fact the ‘top brass’ at Philips who made the final call, not Sony at all. Either way, the invention of the CD made it possible to ...

Those with an appetite for Nintendo history likely will have heard of the 'SNES PlayStation' — a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony which ... created the compact disc technology to support ...