Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
7 Mar 2022 Acquired SONY
“Let me say, when you say CD player, I think everyone's probably picturing something that looks like a Discman right now.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 7 Mar 2022
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SONY
Transcript context
…It truly is Philips and Sony working together to create the CD format, lasers, and all the technology going into it. It's not until 1980 that it's ready to be productized. They announced the CD format in 1980. They signed up tons of partners in all industries all over the world to license it. In 1982, Sony brings the first CD player to market, and then lots of other manufacturers follow suit. The great thing is Sony and Philips are getting royalties on all the hardware and all the discs being sold out there. Let me say, when you say CD player, I think everyone's probably picturing something that looks like a Discman right now. Picture a VCR. It's a big box. You put a CD in it and it plays, but it is a sizable machine. In just a few short years by 1986, CDs become the dominant recording format by sales passing records.…
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