On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:54:31 -0700, Tim Schoon asked:
> I'm looking for sites with history of CDs and DVDs, ones that can tell
> me when the first ones came out and what they were.
>From a clue found in one of the joke postings from Dale Vanselow's Jokes
list, I did a search for this information:
cite:
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~fan/music/cdquestions.html
<quote>
What was the first CD ever?
According to the "Tenth Anniversary of The CD" supplement to the 26 Sep
1992 issue of Billboard Magazine:
October 1982: Billy Joel - 52nd St. (First commercial CD released in
Japan.)
June 1983: 12 CBS titles, 15 Telarc titles, 30 Denon titles (First US CD
releases. All CDs sold in the US previously had been import titles pressed
for overseas labels. These were still manufactured overseas, but for US
labels.)
August 1983: Polygram releases 100 titles in the US
September 1984: Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA (First CD manufactured
in the US.)
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Alan
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