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CD-DA (Digital Audio) – originally published by Philips and Sony in 1981, [1] it was later standardized as IEC 60908:1987 [2] and later IEC 60908:1999. [3] CD-Text – a 1996 extension to CD-DA; CD-MIDI – part of the original Red Book standard; CD+G (plus Graphics) – an extension of the Red Book specifications used mainly for karaoke
Portable CD players are powered by batteries and they have a 1/8" headphone jack into which the user plugs a pair of headphones. The first portable CD player released was the D-50 by Sony. [58] The D-50 was made available on the market in 1984, [59] and adopted for Sony's entire portable CD player line.
The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released in October 1982 in Japan. The format gained worldwide acceptance in 1983–84, selling more than a million CD players in its first two years, to play 22.5 million discs, [2] before overtaking records and cassette tapes to
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Memorex offered a portable CD player that matched the form factor for the 80 mm CD (Model MPD8081). The player was marketed as an MP3 device, and the user was encouraged to burn MP3 music files to a mini CD, and then play them in the player, which was noticeably smaller than a standard portable CD player. The player could also play Red Book ...
The player was sold concurrently with Sony's Data Discman e-book players. [11] Unlike those devices, the MMCD Player could read full-size 120-millimeter CD-ROM discs, including audio CDs. Software format, proprietary to the player, was one of several rich media CD formats released to the market during the early 1990s.
Five projects were released, and a compilation CD was mixed by Dred. All the albums are named after different colours used on the UI spectrum. Their catalog numbers reference Roland synthesizers: the TB-303, the TR-606, the MC-202, and the SH-101. They were released in the following order: Blue, Red, Yellow, and Green.
The reissue was released in a 2-CD edition and an expanded 2-CD, 1-DVD edition. The first disc contains the original album, the second disc contains B-sides collected from OK Computer singles and live recording sessions, and the DVD contains a collection of music videos and a live television performance. [245]