Compact Disc facts
While investigating facts about Compact Disc Player and Compact Disc Digital Audio, I found out little known, but curios details like:
At one point in the 1990's, 50% of all Compact Discs production in the world was dedicated solely to creating AOL sign-up discs.
how compact discs work?
The developers of the compact disc (CD) chose its playing time to ensure that Beethoven's 9th symphony (70 minutes) could be played on a single disc.
What compact disc made of?
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what compact discs?
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Bing Crosby was the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century, having sold over one billion records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads around the world.
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TED Talks have been around for over 30 years and originally featured demos of the compact disc and one of the first demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer
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From 1993 to 1998, Joseph Parvin of Lawrenceville, New Jersey managed to obtain 26,554 compact discs using the introductory offers from BMG Music Services and Columbia House Music Club. The CDs were addressed to 2,417 customer accounts and delivered to 16 P.O. boxes and his home address.
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The standard set for Compact Discs to be able to hold 74 minutes of audio, was made so that one disc could hold Wilhelm Furtwanglers recording of Beethoven's Symphony no.9 from the 1951 Bayteuth Festival.
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When Philips and Sony developed the compact disc format in the late 1970s, they specifically set its maximum length at 74 minutes to ensure that a single disc could hold all of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
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The first compact disc was jointly developed by Sony and Philips
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There are irregular rectangular compact discs designed small enough to be business cards. They can hold up to 100 MB of data.
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On this day, October 1st 1982, Sony relaesed the first commercial compact disc player, the Sony CDO-101. After decades of record tapes, this CD player revolutionized how we listen to music.
