events
Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the same day, Sony releases the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
Related Wikipedia articles
Compact disc
Digital optical disc data storage format
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and is capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sony CDP-101
First commercially released CD player
The Sony CDP-101 was the world's first commercially released compact disc player. The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)