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Who invented the CD?

Updated: 10/3/2023
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James T Russell invented the CD, recorder and player in the 1960s with patents filed in 1971. Licenses issued to Phillips and Sony for development and production. The first CD player was released by sony cdp-101 in 1982.

The compact disc was invented by a collaboration of individuals. There was not any one individual that has responsibility for this invention. The CD was invented by a joint task force between Sony and Phillips who not only invented the medium itself, but the set of standards that it would follow, how it would do error correction, and a whole other batch of things that all culminated in the eventual creation of what the compact disc is today.

The Compact disc project team was led by Toshitada Do and Kees Schouhamer Immink.

The first CD that was pressed was done in Hanover, Germany. It was a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss.

The first commercially available CD Roms were introduced by Sony in October 1982 (CDP-101). The CD was first introduced in Japan and Europe then about a year later in the U.S.

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First prototypes of Compact Disc were demonstrated by Philips in 1979. Standard was proposed by Philips and Sony in 1980. High volume commercial launches happened in 1982, 1983.

"The Visitors" by ABBA was the first music CD manufactured in the Philips factory.

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The first CD was invented by sony-Phillips.

The inventor of the compact disc was James T. Russell. He invented the CD in 1965. Russell is very often not given credit for his invention because due to a lack of interest on the part of inventors he was never able to capitalize. In the 1980's Philips and Sony saw the potential of the CD and purchased licenses. Today the Philips and Sony companies are often and wrongly given credit for an idea they commercialized on approximately fifteen years after it was invented.

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James Russell is the inventor of the compact disk, or CD. It was invented in 1976 and the first albums on CD were released in 1982.

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Petra Tinkova

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it was not a person but Philips and sony

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Sony/phillips

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