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In 1987, Amar Bose and William Short won the Inventor of the Year award from Intellectual Property Owners for the waveguide loudspeaker system. [3] [4] A model with a CD player was added in 1992. The "Acoustic Wave Music System II" was released in 2006 and added MP3 CD playback, a "Boselink" port and a headphone jack. This system was judged to ...
The first 2.1 audio system from Bose was the "Lifestyle 10", which was released in 1990. The Lifestyle 10 included a single-disk CD player, an AM/FM radio and "Zone 2" RCA outputs which could be configured to output a different source to the primary speakers. A 6-disk magazine-style CD changer was introduced in 1996.
Portable players, more so portable CD players but also some portable DVD players, that invariably include an ASP feature (Anti-Skip-protection), struggle with CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW discs – due to the ASP feature being enabled. This is due to the limited read capability of such write-yourself media discs over retail pressed discs.
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. CD players may be part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, personal computers, or ...
Compact Disc and DVD copy protection. CD/DVD copy protection is a blanket term for various methods of copy protection for CDs and DVDs. Such methods include DRM, CD-checks, Dummy Files, illegal tables of contents, over-sizing or over-burning the CD, physical errors and bad sectors. Many protection schemes rely on breaking compliance with CD and ...
Compact discs. A skip or jump is when the laser of a CD player cannot read the faulty groove or block of data. Skips are usually caused by marks blocking the path of the beam to the disc, e.g. a finger mark, hair, dirt in general, or a scratch. Since the read mechanism has very little contact with the disc's surface and the data itself is not ...
Disc rot. Disc rot is the tendency of CD, DVD, or other optical discs to become unreadable because of chemical deterioration. The causes include oxidation of the reflective layer, reactions with contaminants, ultra-violet light damage, and de-bonding of the adhesive used to adhere the layers of the disc together.
Compact disc player manufacturers. A Sony CDP-101 from 1982, one of the earliest CD players affordable to consumers. A&R Cambridge Ltd. Abbingdon Music Research. Accuphase. Audiolab. Bang & Olufsen. Bose Corporation. Boulder Amplifiers.