It's been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined ...

Today marks 43 years since the first commercial compact disc (CD) pressing. Polygram in Germany is credited with pressing the ...

On August 17, 1982, engineers at a Polygram factory in Langenhagen, Germany, pressed the first commercial compact disc, ...

Stories abound about the CD's 74-minute playing time: officially, the real reason for playing Beethoven's 9th Symphony in its entirety is probably more mundane.

In fact, if a company tried to market a copy-protected CD (no ripping, copying, etc), as many did in 2002, Philips said the discs would not bear the official Compact Disc Digital Audio logo.

However, it was actually a joint Sony/Phillips attempt at creating a standard, Green Book CDs that existed alongside the Red Book (standard CD Digital Audio and CD+G karaoke CDs), Yellow Book (CD ...

The specification of the Compact Disc (CD), which was introduced in 1983. The terms Red Book audio, Compact Disc (CD) and CD-DA (CD-Digital Audio) are synonymous. See CD and CD-DA.

Compact disc digital audio technology reproduces sound with remarkable accuracy, clarity and a dynamic range up to 90db, without distortion and surface noise such as “pops” and “ticks.” ...

When the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard came out in 1980, there was a curious fact about it: It was 74 minutes long. Not 60 minutes. Or an even 70 minutes. Seventy-four.

CD-digital audio doesn't work w/ Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card pulsewidth Jul 15, 2001 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...