08-19-2007
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| Jedi SlaveBoy     Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: May 2005 Age: 38
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| Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday _ and whose future is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads. Those first CDs contained Richard Strauss' Alpine Symphony and would sound equally sharp if played today, says Holland's Royal Philips Electronics NV, which jointly developed the CD with Sony Corp. of Japan. The recording industry thrived in the 1990s as music fans replaced their aging cassettes and vinyl LPs with compact discs, eventually making CDs the most popular album format. The CD still accounts for the majority of the music industry's recording revenues, but its sales have been in a freefall since peaking early this decade, in part due to the rise of online file-sharing, but also as consumers spend more of their leisure dollars on other entertainment purchases, such as DVDs and video games. --- Full Article: Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary News Source: Casper Star-Tribune
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| Re: Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary I'll never forget the day I walked into the "Sight & Sound" In Wurzburg Germany. It was 1989. I went in there with only one thing on my mind.... How to spend my new found paycheck as a semi free man in the Army. I immediately spied the new CD players on display... I settled on a Pioneer single disc player and snatched it up, along with about twenty CD's.... I probably spent about $250.00 in all... Went to the Class VI and got a 5th of SoCo... And went back to the Barracks and felt a mile high!!! Good memories!!! 
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| Wanna Bet???   Listens: Z92 - Mornings Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Plattsmeth Age: 38
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| Re: Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary 1985, got a Sony single disc player for Christmas along with a Def Leppard High n Dry CD. Still one of my favorite CD's 
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