heavyset discs were n’t always impromptu drink coasters . Once , in the not - so - distant past times , they played music , contained pictures , and let mass play picture games with tacked - on FMV sequences . And today , the venerable CD turned 30 .
Happy birthday ! 1979 - 2009.Thirty years . Pretty amazing that it ’s been that foresighted since those unbalanced Netherlander at Philips spin the technology off of optical maser discs as part of an optical digital audio disc demo in Eindhoven .
Of course , the CD did n’t directly take off right then and there . It needed a little help from Sony , which worked with Philips to get the format standardized . The criterion they named Red Book , which include everything from playing metre ( initially 60 minutes ) , to the phonograph recording diameter to sampling frequency . Put simply , the collaboration worked out , and Red Book was a success . In the book The Compact Disc Story , Philips reps lauded the undertaking military force they build with Sony . The CD that squad created was “ cook up collectively by a large group of mass working as a team , ” Philips say . If only Apple and Microsoft could say the same , no ? Oh , the thing they could build .
Gushing and my bloviating away , it would n’t be until October 1 , 1982 that Billy Joel ’s 52nd Street became the first CD record album released . It was conveniently released in Japan alongside Sony ’s brand newfangled CDP-101 Compact Disc musician . The album ( and more significantly the medium it was pressed upon ) changed history , as more compact disc players were introduced into the market beginning in 1983 . The music compact disc would reach its zenith with The Beatles “ 1 ” ( 30 million in cut-rate sale ) , before start its eventual and inevitable fall to the Mp3 in the mid-2000 ’s ( in 2008 , for example , CD sales drip 20 % ) .
associate to that point on Mp3s is transcript protection . Or , to be more accurate , the CD ’s double-dyed and utter deficiency of transcript aegis of any kind .
When the Red Book was settle , the criterion made nary a mention of copy shelter . Other than an anti - copy clause in the subcode , there was nothing . In fact , if a company tried to commercialise a written matter - protect cadmium ( no ripping , copying , etc ) , as many did in 2002 , Philips tell the disk would not digest the prescribed Compact Disc Digital Audio logo . It ’s great that Philips did this , because as is the case with many “ protect ” forms of medium today , these non - similar CDs were anti - consumer ; they often did not work in a salmagundi of compact disc - ROM drives or standalone player . And yet Lars Ulrich was tacit . Baffling , but true , and definitely an interesting parallel to today ’s debate about digital rights direction and buccaneering .
As was noted by Blam today in an e-mail to me about this anniversary , Red Book ’s active attempts to keep transcript protection from the specification was improbably forward thinking at the time . You definitely did n’t see it in the ill-famed anti - consumerExtended Copy Protection ( XCP ) debacle at Sony Music BMG . Remember that ol’ chestnut tree ? dry that the Maker of the original standard would be somehow involved in one of the most crying compact disk - tie in abuses of consumer trust , no ?
https://gizmodo.com/sony-stops-production-of-content-protection-cds-136847
But back on compass point . The CD is 30 . It modify tech and gadgetry pretty substantially . Even as it enters the dusk of its cosmos , we eccentric have a slew to be grateful for , and there ’s still plenty to learn from that transcript of What ’s the Story Morning Glory you have under your coffee mug right now . [ Wikipedia ]
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