CD is 25 years old!
An obsolete form of optical media known as the “Compact Disc” celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced (194 billion accounted for by AOL signup disks) since the first one was stamped off the production line on Aug. 17, 1982. The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was “The Visitors” by ABBA. By the time CDs were introduced on the market in November 1982, a catalogue of around 150 titles – mainly classical music – had been produced. The first CDs and CD players – including Philips’ CD100 – were introduced in Japan in November, followed by a US and European market introduction in March of 1983.
The Compact Disc was created from a partnership between Philips and Sony. Philips created most of the core technology while Sony helped with digital encoding for smooth playback. The two would later square off against each other in the 1990s as Sony’s MiniDisc went in direct competition with Philips’ Digital Compact Cassette. Though MiniDisc gained more widespread adoption, neither format was considered a success. At the time, there was no emerging technology really competing against the CD format. Its biggest battle was against vinyl records, an institution by the 1980s, whih still remains the longest-running home audio format in the United States. Damn, do you still remember these times of new games and appz on tens of floppy discs and 1.44 MB archives? I feel a bit of nostalgy here…
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Long live the CD!
Yes, I do remember installing Windows 98 from floppy disks. Cant remember how hard it was if any driver is missing.
dam it seems longer than 25 years and now everybody and i mean people that no nothing about the scene or what we do talking about Cd’s obsolete and blu-ray being the standard now.
as diki said
long live the cd and dvd
Fu*k BlueRay long live Vinyls and Cassettes… NOT
I don’t think CDs are exactly obsolete as a storage media. DVD-A and SACD never really took off, and they’ve been around for a while now.
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are also still far from being the standard. DVDs still reign supreme, at least until video stores carry more of them than DVDs.
sorry for the double post
I still remember installing Windows and Norton Commander from Floppy’s… and playin’ Lion King
And just dancing around with that orange mouse on that lovely blue background…eh…
Those where the good ‘ol days… eh… kids this days… born with there PS3 and WII’s ,Blu-Rays, HD-TV… just don’t know how it was to copy quake illegally on 30 floppys…and the feeling when floppy nr.23 failed to read….eh….
Aol signup disks…lmao
Don’t waste a CD on the Simpsons DVDrip on Newtorrents.It’s
a fake.Just another MVS recode.Should be just about on topic.
Happy birthday CD… we all hope you die soon
lol i love you style
“Damn, do you still remember these times of new games and appz on tens of floppy discs and 1.44 MB archives? I feel a bit of nostalgy here…”
thats funny…but i think that i am falling behind and sony is too…they need to release faster bluray..who the fuck wants to burn 49 gb at 2x!!!!!!!!not me!!!so got off your ass and stop making cash off releasing that slow ass piece of shit….im not being shit until its at least 8x…anyways if you read popular science you would know that thier is something that is going to slaughter HD-Dvd and most like rip blue rays aoerta out…its some shit call crystallized memory or somebullshit like that it can currently hold 300 gb on one disk but its goal is 100 tb on on disk so by by hd-dvd..
Lion King on floppy?!? Hhahaha, you were lucky. Try the Space Quest series (1 was awesome), how about Mean Streets or Crime Wave featuring RealSound (emulating proper audio via PC Speaker). Fact is CDs have been around for ages, I bought one of the first drives to support CDs on the x86 platform (80386 20MHz w/o Math co-processor) and good riddance that we’ve got DVDs and DL-DVDs now because they store a whole heck more than those dainty little 650MB/700MB OB CDs! Ps. First CD game I owned was that crappy Star Wars shoot ‘em up with FMV!
damn you learn something new everyday lol it thought cds came out around a good 1994
damn, is it so ols already.
And yes, I remember the floppy-time. (a game on 4 floppy’s was awesome those days).
Also, I remember I had a CD-I from philips, (one of the first consoles with cd) but it never was a succes, xbox en PS had a better succes.
actually the first album released on CD was Billy Joel’s “52nd Street”.
You guys are all n00bs! Everything is going digital within the next decade. Why carry around a big ass flat disk when all you need is a small digital chip that can hold 100 times more?
actually the time it takes to burn a full blueray is the same amount of time it takes to burn a full dvd+r. Remember that 2x is on a 25 gb scale.
Sega-CD, too. *LOL*
Windows 95 was 30 floppy disks, if I remember correctly. They were also specially formatted with DMF to fit more data on them, something like 1.68 MB, I think.
Hi Guys, Any Of You Know If Theres Is Any New Rls Of Rush Hour 3 About.
Thanks
Martin: banned, offtopic (83.71.86.115)
“You guys are all n00bs! Everything is going digital within the next decade. Why carry around a big ass flat disk when all you need is a small digital chip that can hold 100 times more?”
Well actually that would make us oldskool, duh.
Sorry for being off topic, but I am wondering what the general consensus is on which is the fastest and easiest torrent software to use. I use Azureus but find it to be a major resource hog, and event after using some tweaks I found online, it is still slow.
Thanks
Martin: offtopic, banned (72.186.221.211)
Jetset Willy on a Sinclair ZX81 16k with a Microdrive.
God i remember when a Floppy was a luxury.Still got a Microdrive and tapes somewhere.
Gotta love the ignorance of some people.
Blu-ray/hddvd are not that great nor are they the next standard. I’m sorry but if 8.7gb isn’t enough to store audio and video content, then it’s not fucking needed. The hold that CD and DVD have on the majority of the planet where digital media is present makes this newer technology laughable, and their expense and uncertainty only add to the mess. CDs will not die easily, they’ll just become cheaper to produce and sell as time goes on. I predict there will still be use for 750mb of quick digital storage even 10 years from now. Also those of you arguing for the induction of flash-based storage alternatives obviously have no idea how easily these devices can loose data… hell a CD can survive an EMP blast… show me a jumpdrive or a micro-sd card that can do the same while being used.
yeh, fuck Blu Ray.
and i dont want Vista, so CDs it is for XP Pro http://btjunkie.org/search?q=xp+pro+ultra
I thought the first CD pressed was Bruce Springstein – Born in The USA
U2 “The Joshua Tree” was my first CD. I still have it!
Dire Straits “Money For Nothing” was my first DDD disc, still have that bad boy too.
I was still rockin the 8088 clone back then!
Man I feel old now.
FYI:
Windows 95 has been released on both floppy disks and on CD-ROM, as some computers at the time did not include a CD-ROM drive. The floppy disk version of Windows 95 came on 13 DMF formatted floppy disks, excluding additional software that some releases might have featured, such as Internet Explorer. Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 was also available on floppy disks.
Official system requirements were an Intel 80386 DX CPU of any speed, 4 MB of system RAM, and 50 MB of hard drive space
I didn’t know compact discs were that old. The earliest I can remember knowing about them was 1994.
@d3m0n5:I know what you mean. I remember when IBMs were new and having to play the games off 3.5 inch floppies. King’s Quest and Space Quest. Then there were the APPLE IIE’s that the school still had, and the games on 5 inch floppies.
hell a CD can survive an EMP blast.
Don’t dispute it for a second. Only last three minutes with my grandkids though.
Martin! I have a lot nostalgy! Thx for remind that. I have some of first CD’s brouth to market dated from 1983. Philips
was always innovative in some fields. Lets take DIVX fenomen.
Wnen some unbranded companys like APEX, try develop encoding
DIVX at first time,it was some of revolution, be able play Divx compressed movies on your TV. But Philips only develop
realy capable to play DVD players, becauce they use innovative chipsets. They got high resistanse from companys like SONY, bcz SONY run movie companys and fighting piracy against them. You probably not find any SONY DVD player supporting Divx. It like back to time wnen first MP3 files appear. A lot of screams around, but now it indastry standart. So Divx/Xvid now become big player at scene and more and more brands try implement encoding Divx in their chipsets. So thx Philips for their long therm vision, and tnx Martin for remind that. Its a lot of nostalgy…
madstan: That’s due to parents not bothering to instill a sense of property worth in their children. The old “if I break it mommy will buy a new one” attitude makes quite the negative impression on a child. The way I handled it is if a child broke a cd or a dvd, I broke their favorite toy or took it away for a long time. The mishandling of cd and dvd media stopped shortly thereafter and they even began putting them back in the cases when they were finished watching/listening.
madstan: Forgot to say that oddly enough my girlfriend hasn’t quite gotten the damn hint about how to handle this yet and has re-bought The Labrynth about 6 times. As well as having to re-buy many of her favorite cds time and again.
Just one more add. Any one still remember who is was on of first recording studios what widly accept CD as new media format? I believe it was POLYGRAM! If someone keep originals, i like to heard what you have! Peace to all!
I remember back in the early 80’s seeing the old giant cd players on Who’s the Boss? and some Burt Reynolds movie where he is a mall security guard or something. I actually thought the first were produced in the late 70’s. Cool story, I didn’t see it on any other site today.
“actually the first album released on CD was Billy Joel’s “52nd Street”.”
Maybe in America, but in eu, nobody did give a slight fuck about joel, so it had to be european.
I remember the first Nascar game I played was in 8 diskettes 1.44! Even older the 1st Larry game on 5 1/4 diskettes…
Nostalgia!
The First CD was a Flopy xD
Is it sad that I remember typing in game code from a magazine into my ZX81, eg:
10 FAST
20 INPUT M
30 IF M
That reminded me of
10 PRINT “Eat Shit and die”
20 GOTO 10
The good old Commodore64 days with the real ‘floppy’ 5 1/4 disks or if you weren’t that lucky, like me, a tape deck that would take about 20 mins to load half a game then flip it to finish loading it, lol.
@ madstan
“Jetset Willy on a Sinclair ZX81 16k with a Microdrive.”
That was on 48K Spectrum
Wasted
I stand corrected.
Never did finish that game even with the crack for collecting all objects on entering room.Did you.
CAKEWALK.MUSIC.CREATOR.V4.DVD-ADDICTION on TL, hopefully soon to be public for you guys without a TL acct.
i bet you guys want to know the actual person whom “invented” the cd..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornelis_Antonie_Schouhamer_Immink
He also created (among other things) the source code for the DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Reelfiles,
At age 27 to use a datasette on a C=64 you must have been either very young or just behind the times. I got a C64 @ age 12 in 1985. I am 35 now. I uad a datasette but almost never used it. Of course I had the 1540/41’s and eventually 4 SFD 1001’s for the BBS. But the whole point it cassettes were slow. I use Cd for the pc now. I don’t use a DVD burner. Although I think with the amount of cd’s I have, I need to consolidate. I like to burn the XVID movies on a disc and watch them on my standalone Divx player (Phillips of course)
@SuperMovieFan: here is another weird fact, how many people here actually know that the PS2 adapter for Mouse/Keyboard is actually named after and originally introduced on the IBM PS/2 Computer (a standard IBM build specific for home office/user). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_connector if you don’t believe me
anyhow, those were crap systems. As for Apple II’s, dude, they were SOOOO awesome, my 5 1/4 ” Floppy drive for my Apply II actually BURST into flames the other day. THOSE were the days man, when hardware actually burst into flames rather than fizzle pop and dead.
I wouldn’t say CD’s are obsolete for PC media either, I just now have custom stripped copies of Vista (Ultimate Lite & Extreme Gamer Editions)which fit on a CD.Why use a DVD for 650Mb, even if DVD’s are dirt cheap now?
I also have a CD player in every room (and MiniDisc – WTF?), so still burn custom music mixes on CD-R’s.
Mind you I’m an ancient old timer like Reelfiles @ 36yrs!
kill cds, dvd for lower prices.NOW……….
My first porn was on a floppy.. Now it’s on my xbox, my wii, my 360, my laptop, my iPod… Don’t die, CD! You have much more porn-value for me!
200 billion produced seems kinda low to me . . does that include just regular cd’s or cd-r/rw’s aswell . . if you include the rewritables I’d expect that number in the trillions
Happy Birthday Compact Disc !!! We still love you
Martin, I just got to say I just got in from a crap night night out (in uk and just gone 3am) and your “194 billion accounted for by AOL signup disks” has made me laugh my head off.
i wont say how old i am but for the uk readers here (of my age) i still remember convincing my parents I needed a bbc micro for school (and not cos i wanted to play elite honest *winks*)
1982………..
i use the cds from 1997… 10 years only
Haha, i still have got a game on 21 floppys, though me and my brother had a 1x cd-wirter the size of a desktop-pc at that time. But it was kind of easier and cheaper to put it on floppies.. and our frieds were able to read fdds
MD was a nice thing, it would have been nice to put data on it, but sony’s md data writing thingie cost about a bazillion bucks, and my md player fell down one day and i wasn’t able to change the disk in it. Sadly i only use CDs for my car nowadays. It’s easier to stream music to my airport express than put a cd into my charger…. but because it’s the birthday i will listen to some old KLF CD today 
Ha! KLF – Now there’s a reason that the CD is still useful.
You can’t buy any of their tracks from iTunes, etc. because they deleted their whole back catalogue in 1992! So unless you have their CD, or get a copy of their CD, or someone uploads tracks from their CD, then you can’t hear them.
I knew they didn’t burn that million quid for nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_K_Foundation_burn_a_million_quid
if cd’s are so dead then why are scene movie releases always 700 megs
cd?
dvd?
hd-dvd?
blue-raY?
HEck I still use floppys…
I love Dos…
Hey guys!
Whats we talk about here!? We talk about aniversary not about
what better or not. Dont forget spesialy, for guys who never got any CDs from store but download them as Mp3, all stuff what you got came Ripped from CD or Vinyls. You can rip DVDs soundtracks, but it more complicated. So if want real one, you go in store and buy CD. Periot!
About programs? Yes a still have hundreds Floppys from past. Just for fun, maybe they will have value later as relics.
I am not use Floppy for last 4 years and dont want discuse why. DVD for sure future, no mater what standart is, Blue-Ray, HD… bla, bla… But Cd still major format for some years to deliver to us some upgrades, firmware, software and music of course. Lets celibrate humans knowlege, techology and just be happy to have it, instead hundreds floppy.. He He! Peace to all.
One more comment, sorry!
Of course most newest programm, spesially games can go trough now only on DVD, bcz of size. But most programms still come on CDs. So sry, I still afford CDs like a media!
@madstan
“Never did finish that game even with the crack for collecting all objects on entering room.Did you.”
Nope never even got close to finishing it, great game though.
chuck yeagers air combat fuckin a lol
It’s nostalgia. Are all the editors of this site 12 years old? And more to the point.. who gives a shit about CDs being 25 years old now? THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SCENE RLS SITE!!!!! Sort it out.
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erok713
August 18th, 2007 | 01:55
Reelfiles,
At age 27 to use a datasette on a C=64 you must have been either very young or just behind the times. I got a C64 @ age 12 in 1985. I am 35 now. I uad a datasette but almost never used it. Of course I had the 1540/41’s and eventually 4 SFD 1001’s for the BBS. But the whole point it cassettes were slow…”
A little bit of both
I was young and we were somewhat poor. I was living in Germany, and we couldn’t afford to buy a C64 retail. My father was a trucker and he brought home a huge box of seemingly random stuff that “fell off the truck”. My mom and I went through the box and managed to piece one complete C64 together out of all the junk in there, minus a floppy drive. We also managed to salvage an Atari which was pretty cool.
Learning basic on that machine was actually the only family activity my mother and I ever did, lol. We spent hours program really simple games, like a hot air balloon that would just bounce off the sides of the screen, more like a screensaver, I guess. Of course our work would be destroyed once somebody tripped over the power chord or turned the unit off. That’s enough rambling, sorry
the music industry will have to continue using cds.. cus they will hardly start using dvds as it would just be stupid… unless artists wanna release thousands of tracks each album!
Bahhh!
reelfiles, so you say you and your mother programmed some simple in basic on your c64??! thats somewhat cool, is your mum still interrests in pc nowadays?
I remember that hot air balloon
wasnt the code in the manual?
took me hours to type it out
well in the future the format and quality will change,
so they could fit the same amount of tracks onto a dvd but just higher quality like 192hz 24bit :0
maybe in a new technology better than ac3 and wav that i dont know of yet or maybe does exists i dont know
but for sure it will be based on the same principles of the cd.
i got my first pc cd in 1997 with my first pc a p133 with a cdrom drive :0 i was so happy, i got fifa 1997 and played it non stop i was 13.
my family got a cd player in about 1992 i was 8
i hate dvds/cds for backup purposes they piss me off, solid state hds are the future, endless ttl and fast seek times due to no moving parts…
anyway goodbye
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CD!
I remember installing Dos and Windows 3.1 on floppy, it’d take hours, then came windows on CD – Wow, 5 minutes.
Now we are back upto hours with Winxp and Vista.
Still got loads of dos games on CD now.
Long Live the CD!
I remember using dozens of aol signup discs as frisbees… Damn they hurt.
194 billion to AOL sign up cds!
Great gag – still laughing!