1982: Sony starts selling the first CD players to the public. Change is in the air. Once upon a time cassettes were the preferred method of storing music. These mighty rectangles of plastic and ...

The very first automotive compact disc player — the Pioneer CDX-1 — launched in 1984, but it wasn't until a few years later that you could purchase a new car with a factory-equipped unit.

The CDP-101: Sony creates a legend The World's First CD Player the Sony CDP-101 The first commercially available CD player, the iconic Sony CDP-101, was first offered by the electronics giant in ...

The first iterations weren’t cheap though.One ... big invention that wasn’t so large in size was the portable CD-player. This “handy-dandy” device could fit in a pocket and let you listen ...

But CD players are flooding the market, while old-fashioned turntables grow scarce. Record companies now release the CD first and then maybe the LP. So with trepidation, you head for the ...

In fact, the acronym S/PDIF stands for Sony/Philips Digital Interface. By 1983, when the very first compact disc players started selling in the United States, Toshiba had entered the foray with an ...