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Happy Birthday to Compact Disc (CD)
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8-16-2007 11:30 AM
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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">Exactly 25 years ago tomorrow, on August 17, 1982, Royal Philips Electronics manufactured the world’s first compact disc</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The invention of the CD ushered in a technological revolution in the music industry as CDs – with their superior sound quality and scratch free durability – marked the beginning of the shift from analogue to digital music technology.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The Philips factory in Germany, where the world’s first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was “The Visitors” by <SPAN class="caps">ABBA</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.pcnews.ro/2007/08/16/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-of-the-compact-disc/">The first CDs and CD players – including Philips’ <SPAN class="caps">CD100 </SPAN>– were introduced in Japan in November, followed by a US and European market introduction in March of 1983</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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