Compact Disc, every mention

SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired Mar 7, 2022 · 16 mentions

• ▶ 1:07:35 David Rosenthal The first one is the compact disc.
• ▶ 1:07:38 David Rosenthal So I did not realize that work on what would become the CD actually started, like,
• ▶ 1:08:15 Ben Gilbert How crazy is it that we're telling the CD story, the origin of the CD format before the Walkman?
• ▶ 1:08:29 David Rosenthal I mean, it's crazy when you think about with all the tech that goes into CDs.
• ▶ 1:09:05 David Rosenthal Yeah, and it truly is Philips and Sony working together to create the CD format and lasers and all the technology going into it.
• ▶ 1:09:17 David Rosenthal So they announced the format in 1980, the CD format.
• ▶ 1:09:48 Ben Gilbert Like, it's a big box that, yes, you put a CD in it and it plays, but it is a sizable machine.
• ▶ 1:09:54 David Rosenthal So, in just a few short years, by 1986, CDs become the dominant recording format by sales, passing records.
• ▶ 1:10:11 Ben Gilbert If you look at US recorded music sales by format, the CD grew really fast, and I think there might have been like a handful of years in there in the mid to late eighties where cassettes were bigger than records, but CDs hadn't yet caught…
• ▶ 1:10:32 Ben Gilbert The cassette wave was kind of reasonably short lived as the dominant platform between records and CDs.
• ▶ 1:10:53 David Rosenthal Uh, and this is another thing I didn't realize that the Walkman came out like pretty concurrently with the rise of CDs.
• ▶ 1:10:58 David Rosenthal But as you were saying, it's not like you could take a big honking, you know, home CD player on the road.
• ▶ 1:11:04 Ben Gilbert No CDs were not portable for a long time.
• ▶ 1:22:04 David Rosenthal One, CDs.
• ▶ 1:29:33 David Rosenthal The CD is already really big at this point.
• ▶ 1:34:28 David Rosenthal Just given Sony's history, given their ownership of the CD format, it's almost definitely not true in the movie business.