Friday 17 August 2007

25th Anniversary Of The Compact Disc

Exactly 25 years ago today, on August 17, 1982, Dutch company Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world's first compact disc at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, just outside of Hanover, Germany.

Development of the Compact Disk to replace vinyl records began in the 1970s with Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands and Sony Corporation of Japan. Philips produced the optical storage technologies, while Sony pioneered error correction circuitry.

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