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- mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39Haha, is your penis really that small?
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -2/+32Now auto insurance will be less for the CD.
- tdrizzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27Not a bad time length for any physical media.
- rockandrollmark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Or is your ass that big?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -8/+25Buried for ABBA bashing.
- donte, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21Sony celebrated the event with double rootkits for everyone!
- acceleriter, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Compact Disc, dead at 25
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - technological and musical innovation Compact Disc was found dead in his Hanover, Germany home this morning. The cause of death is rumored to be Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Digg community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy digital music, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon. - eatsleeptrumpet, on 10/10/2007, -6/+19I'll always have a special spot in my heart for a CD, because you can't make love to an mp3...
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11It's not *****, it's based on people under 25 being higher risk because they think they're immortal and believe drugs and alcohol increase their driving ability.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You don't enjoy taking days off if work for Martin Luther King, Abraham, and George Washington?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I bought my first CD player in 1985 for about $400. I had a pretty good summer job that year. I think I was the first person I knew to get one. I think I also bought 3 CDs for about $20-25 each: A Dire Straits album, Pink Floyd's Final Cut... and I can't remember the other one. Geez. $60+ for some pretty mediocre albums. You kids these days with your unlimited free music. You don't know how good you've got it.
- tdhurst, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Do the two of you really want to know?
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Exactly 5 years after the death of Elvis? I smell a conspiracy.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I love ABBA!
- superdoppler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What is the hell is this "scratch free durability" that it references in the article?
- Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I do, blank ones. For to burn my downloads.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What if eatsleeptrumpet is a girl? ....
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So what do you do for Christmas? Sit around and go ***** yourself?
- hordak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5How is that spam and not the original article? Looks like there are two different writers covering the same thing -- probably due to Philips notifying a BUNCH of people in the industry about the 25 year anniversary.
- krnldmp, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Funny thing is a 1985 CD player still sounds better than mp3.
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I remember hearing my first CD a few months later on a friend’s super-avantgarde HiFi system - "90125" by Yes. CD players cost a fortune then. I was fifteen and had never heard anything but cassettes and vinyl on relatively modest equipment, so my ears were adjusted to a much smaller frequency and dynamics range.
I would like to say the CD was a kind of epiphany, but it was rather a shock. Like going from a room with a candle to a theatre filled with 1,000 watt bulbs. Everything was too bright, too loud, too much of everything. It was unpleasant.
Well, I got used to it later, and in the meantime, I have bought a lot of my early CDs again, because there was much more on those vintage 24 tracks than early CD mastering equipment was able to capture. A lot of what sounded too bright and over-the-top in the early nineties would now be considered "muffled" and "muddy" ... - Rethcir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4This is true. Free on-demand access to any music you want.. it's truly a dream come true. It's tearing down the record companies. And it's driving musicians' earnings up by encouraging more people to see them on tour. It's a win-lose-win
- Stopher, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Damm, I'm old.
- greydream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3
I think CDs might hang around for a few more years until they start offering FLAC and other uncompressed formats more widely. Jazz sounds like crap on anything other than a CD. - MiddleOfNowhere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The reason why radio *seems* to sound better is that they’re cheating. It’s called "compressing everything to death - AGAIN" (because the producer has done it before). This is an arms race fought with expensive outboard equipment and psychoacoustics, and in the end, everyone loses, with our "aural taste buds" being the first victim.sorry
- GeneralFailure0, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2As NatieB pointed out already, that's not the moment they came into existence. It's when the first one to be sold was produced.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I still have must first CD player and it still works. Just don't bump it. Interesting to to compare the old CDs with the new ones. They're much thicker and heavier.
- Elranzer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Damn it, I'm the same age as a CD? Lam0rz
- so1omon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I am over 25, and I KNOW drugs and alcohol increase my driving ability.
One of those two statements is a lie. - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I had to do it, now so must you. That's that.
- SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Heres a bit of useless trivia I think I picked up in a Guinness Book whilst I was on the can a few years back...
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms was the first CD to sell a million copies. - Rkstar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I always heard that Billy Joel's "52nd Street" was the very first CD made... as is mentioned on these sites:
http://siliconuser.com/?q=node/15
http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-20/h5.html - bluebirdgm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My first CD: "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Even Worse." What can I say? I was, like, twelve.
- nickstr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2more rather useless trivia: first CD pressed in the United States, Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
the CD that brought the format to the attention of many: Thriller, Michael Jackson - hiro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2WTF? Do you mean they're hotties?
- howser2007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Happy birthday, now GTFO!
- mywhitenoise, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2At least you had 21 years to enjoy it. I bought an SACD/DVD-A player for the same price about 3 or 4 years ago, and both those formats are already dead.
- mightycbu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1how long before iTunes Music Store breaks the 200billion sold record?
BTW dugg for the AOL reference lol - greydream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Agreed. Forgot about that. I have a small vinyl collection myself and I love the sound.
- gunit99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1*****, I'm old!!
- eatsleeptrumpet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sorry, did i say CD? i meant laserdisc...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1is it weird that as a tech person, i've reverted back to buying cds? In college all I did was DL illegally, it was just too easy there, plus I had no money. Then I graduated and starting buying some music I liked from iTunes etc, using bit torrents for other bands that I had a fleeting interest in. I just didn't want to deal with the DRM garbage tho, so now, I just buy the CD, rip it, and use the MP3's on my iPod, xbox360, computer or whatever. I end up with the album art and a permanent backup of the music I like. I do still use torrents for artists I don't care too much for. anyone else like me?
- SteveCUBE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My jazz records on vinyl disagree
- ChrisGranger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was about to say that too. Hmm.
- antdude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What if she has one. ;)
- SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg for the use of "for to"
- kidvicious1973, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My music teacher brought one into class when they came out. He was talking about how indestructible the discs were. His quote was you can use them as second base and still play them.
- SenorCardgage74, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I wasnt really feeling the urgency until around the 3rd question mark.
Now I "get" it - Bdog2g2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"I don't celebrate birthdays after death."
Well if you were dead, I think it would be pretty hard for you to celebrate birthdays. - RonnieBarzel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Those two links actually don't offer any contradiction. ABBA's "The Visitors" was the first manufactured, while Billy Joel's "52nd Street" was the first to go on sale. Sony's Japanese replication plant, which produced "52nd Street," may not have been operational when the Hanover, Germany, plant made "The Visitors."
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