CD Player Day
CD Player Day is held on October 1. This event in the first decade of the month October is annual. Help us
Sony and Philips teamed up to create the CD format and set a new standard for audio formats. The first commercially produced CD player was the Sony CDP-101 and was released in 1982.
The first CD player was $1,500.
The first workable digital compact disc device, the precursor on now-ubiquitous CD/DVDs, was invented in the late 1960s by the American physicist James Russell.
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