File 001 · Category Openers
Record 039 · Media · 1982
82.39.ACompact Disc
Sony / Philips
“Digital audio as a living-room product and the last physical format that really won.”
Perfect sound forever.
74 minutes chosen to fit Beethoven's Ninth. Spawned CD-ROM, then DVD. Peak music-industry cash machine of the 1990s.
Filed notes
- 16-bit/44.1 kHz Red Book
- Error-corrected optical pits
- CD-ROM data extension
Units. 200+ billion CDs pressed over the format lifetime
SIC
3652
Phonograph Records and Prerecorded Audio Tapes and Disks
NAICS
334610
Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media
