A History of the Compact Disc
"The CD was one of the most beautifully engineered products to ever come out of the late 20th century.
It opened the door to our modern world of digital music, but it is a transition technology whose time has passed..."
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When was the CD invented?
When was the CD invented?
Sony and Philips, which brought to market the laserdisc in 1978, began developing the compact disc in 1979. The first player and discs were released in Japan in 1982, followed by Europe and the U.S. in March 1983.
Fun Fact: The first CD released was in Japan of Billy Joel's "52nd Street."
During that initial 1983 launch in the U.S., only 75 stores in the country sold CDs and the players were very pricey. Discs, which initially cost $16-$20, with inflation cost are the equivalent of $48-$60 today. It was a big investment for the time and still is.
Will the compact disc live on?
When the format was being designed in the 1980s, optical discs were the obvious storage media because of their ability to store millions of bytes of data (many minutes of music) at low cost. Once solid-state memory became affordable, MP3 players and iPods proliferated which was the beginning of the end for CDs because they had all the advantages of the Compact Disc but were even smaller and even more convenient. Modern automobiles do not come with a disc player, nor do new stereo systems or laptops. Time and progress of technology has made the Audio CD all but redundant, and are now considered to be a collectors item like the 8-track or cassette tape.
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