Introducing The Amazing Compact Disc | 1982 | Retro vintage 80s technology
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- When the first compact discs arrived on the Australian market in 1983, they ranged in price from $900-$1800. The price didn’t hold back the rapid adoption of the technology.
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Towards 2000 debuted on the ABC in 1981. It was a half-hour program showcasing developments and inventions in science and technology. One of the early highlights was this report about the imminent arrival of the next big thing in home entertainment - the compact disc.
This technology was considered so exciting that three of the show’s presenters, Sonia Humphrey, Iain Finlay and Jeff Watson combined to tell the story. It’s worth watching just to see them in their 1982 sartorial elegance, but it’s also a treat to hear the use of words such as “radiogram”, and “gramophone”, and “micro-groove long-playing record” which you don’t hear so much anymore…
The compact disc was popular in its heyday. But as Sonia put it in her closing remarks, there was an even better technology on the horizon.
“The Compact Disc may well rule the roost - at least until someone perfects a method of putting Beethoven’s 9th on a silicon chip. Don’t laugh, I’m assured that that day, in fact, is not too far off…..”
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Love how they pay respect to old technology before introducing the new one.
I agree. My greetings from Lima, Perú.
@ΗΛΙΑΣ ΛΕΓΚΡΙΑΝΟΣ x2
8:15 love how they disrespect the new technology with all those fingerprints
@@troywright359 hahaahahah I thought the same... it was like "oh no, why did they do that???!!" hahaha
The "new " technology is a dinosaur now !!!!!!
"Until the day that someone perfects the method of putting Beethovens 9th on a silicon chip" she was pretty damn close
Well,she was forewarning the public with facts
Interestingly, the length of Beethoven’s 9th was used to determine the standard for the maximum playback time on a CD.
Starts playing Beethoven’s 9th on my phone
40 years later, 500 GB of storage is crammed inside a chip half the size of your pinky nail and costs 40 USD. The future is bright. Or dark as we cannot imagine.
@@rathersane I heard this fact through Technology Connections.
That lady had an A++++++++ introduction to the segment. VERY well done.
Also she was well dressed and attractive. They wouldn't have someone like that now.
And an S++++++++ closing as well!!
I still have my first compact discs from 1986 and they still work fine. Amazing technology.
Their cases are heavier too!
Dieter Rams Braun Atlier system here from 1985. It was originally my moms and I've fixed it. Working CD player and tape as well. Marvelous.
All my CDs from 90s are fine and playable.
Same here… I have a 1986 Beogram CDX. The only issue with it and many Philips CD players from this era, was that the joints between the top and bottom pcb layer had to be resoldered. The mechanism will run forever with its heavy diecast structure and glass lens laser… BR, Per (Denmark)
There are two types of CDs, stamped or recorded. The printed ones are forever, all the ones I have still work. However, those that are recorded are not, in the long run, many are erased or fail to be read. But it's great technology, I also have a Sony VHS tape recorder and it works perfectly, and I still use it because it's useful for me.
Lol “scratch proof and dust proof”
Well it is to an extent. A little dust doesn't hurt it, some scratches don't either. Pretty durable, unless your using it as a frisbee.
as he is holding it on the edges
It's scratch p-p-p-p-p-p-ru--ru-ru-oof...
@Dr. Wily depends on the quality of laser.
You clearly didn't hear or see the part about the plastic film covering. ;)
5:41 "You're listening on a conventional TV set" - Imagine explaining how we're actually watching it
To be honest it would probably be about as complicated as them trying to explain how a traditional CRT TV and NTSC signals work to us today. "What do you mean there's no pixels?" etc.
The screen is blue, with all song titles appear on TV.
@Wandy Wexler Weslon hours?
Imagine explaining to someone from the 80's that you're watching a TV show on a phone using the internet.
@@Antonio88870 you mean a phone without a cord nor an antenna
Im watching this on my android 6 inch snapdragon 855 phone via wifi fiber internet. This will blow their retro mind😂. In fact im downloading this to my 256 gig micro sd card which will blow their very retro mind.
I remember being blown away by the first CD player I saw. As a cassette user I was stunned how you could instantly skip to the start of a song. The fact we still use them 40 years later is remarkable.
In the 90s, (heck prob now) some marketing person sold a CD rewinder. Not kidding. People freakin bought these things too. Its things like this that make me loose faith in humanity.
@ghost mall I remember using the fast forward to 'DJ' cassette songs as a kid. I always wanted a DJ turntable so badly I made a pretend one with two CDs on a piece of cardboard
@@theotherdave8013 well... last year people buyed ultra expensive stupid useless NFTs in a storm of crazyness, without understanding nothing about what they were "buying".
who's we? i don't even remember the last time I used a cd.
@@EverGameStudios 33 million CDs sold last year in the USA alone... every true music fan knows that CD (and vinyl) remain very very relevant.
I miss the 1990s and early 2000s, when I enjoyed playing CDs on my portable CD player and with high quality sound.
8:26 "Don't laugh, I'm assured that that day in fact is not too far off" within about 16 - 17 years from this broadcast, USB flash drives were a thing, so she was right.
USB flash drives were a thing in 2000, yes, but they were fairly small and barely used. A 64 MB thumbdrive is barely enough to fit Beethoven's 9th symphony (if you are OK with 112kbps MP3). It definitely was not available until maybe 2002 or 2003. It is safe to say that fitting 70 minutes of music, in good quality on a flash drive had to wait until 21 to 22 years from that broadcast.
I think I still used a 512 MB drive as late as in 2007. :)
@@HalfgildWynac fr now we got 1tb thumb drives for a couple bucks 😂
Some are 20 bucks on amazon
@@sharifnasser7635 a $20 1tb thumb drive?... Lmao ok, not today dude, not at that price.
@bopp9
I guess she may know already.
@@clintonepps3666 mp3 players and phones
Can we take a moment to appreciate how actually informative this was?
Absolutely skeletor
I loved that they focused on the person explaining. No rapid cuts to and from b-roll, various angles.
Very mature, very steady.
I love when he lists off the specs of the disk player. 90db 0.5 distortion 😆 And learning how Sony and Phillips teamed up
A time before the corporates started treating us like the idiots we are.
I didn't know CD's were SCRATCHPROOF! 2:56
He's never met my kids!
It was a sweltering night in mid-1983, the kind of sticky Miami evening where the ocean breeze did little to cool the charged air of South Beach. I found myself in a dimly lit, smoke-filled club, the scent of salt and cigarettes mingling in a heady mix that could only spell out a night to remember. The dance floor was pulsating with the latest hits, and when "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson came on, the bass was so crisp it cut through the haze like a knife-thanks to the club’s new gadget, a Sony CD Player.
The sound was a revelation, clearer than any cassette tape I'd ever heard. I was mesmerized, leaning over the bar to get a closer look at this sleek, futuristic machine that promised to change how we listened to music forever. It was then that she caught my eye-a vision, really, leaning casually against the bar with a drink in hand, almost as radiant as the reflection off the CD player's metallic surface. Her laugh was light, almost melodic, much like the laser precision with which the CD player transitioned between tracks.
We got to talking, though I admit my gaze kept shifting between her bright eyes and the glint of the CD player as it spun tracks effortlessly. She told me her name, which I promptly forgot, and laughed when I confessed my split admiration for her and the latest tech marvel. She didn’t seem to mind-maybe it was the novelty of the CD player, or perhaps it was the way the neon lights danced across her smile, making it hard to focus on which of the two was more captivating.
Eventually, we decided to leave the throb of the club behind. She suggested we take the night back to her place, a suggestion I found as enticing as testing out her own CD collection. Back at her apartment, as we listened to more tracks, marveling at the absence of tape hiss and the clarity of the sound, I found myself increasingly drawn not just to the music, but to her-the way she moved, her easy laughter, the intelligent glint in her eye that promised conversations as engaging as the music was clear.
It was a whirlwind from there. Days turned into weeks, and weeks into months. The Sony CD Player became a cornerstone of our time together, a symbol of the modernity and clarity that defined the early days of our relationship. As we listened to countless albums, dissecting each track and marveling at the technology that made such fidelity possible, I realized I was no longer sure where my fascination with the CD player ended and my love for her began.
Years later, as we look back on that night, she teases me that I married her for her CD collection. Perhaps she isn’t entirely wrong. But every time I look at our old Sony CD Player, now a relic in a corner of our living room, I remember the night I fell in love twice-once with a piece of groundbreaking technology, and again, almost incidentally, with the woman who would become my wife. Even now, I’m not entirely sure which one was the music to my ears, and which was just a beautiful accompaniment.
Beautifully written
Lovely story, you write really well: building the seamless world of 1980s Miami, and pressing all the right nostalgia buttons. I can even picture you and your future wife leaving into the warm sunset to "Crockett's Theme" by Jan Hammer, tho I don't know if it can be counted as one of the tunes you two fell in love and danced to.
Publish, if you can, and write more. If you two have kids or even grandkids, do write to them, to preserve your memories of a bygone era.
Great story well told.
Publish that book, and I'll buy it.
Are you writing a novel here in the comments?
Sonia was so informative, clear and very classy. Just liked her last sentence.
so her name is Sonia, is she still alive?
@@NA-mc8cl Her name is Sonia Denise Humphrey! She died in 2011 aged 63.
1982: CDs are so much better than LP vinyl records.
2019: Vinyl records being sold in stores again.
Because CDs are flawed in that they’re extremely easy to ruin. Of course people thought they’d replace vinyl because CDs were new tech at the time and they seemed, from a technical point of view, better. But in reality things a little different
Properly mastered CDs are superior to vinyl. I should know. I’ve been an audiophile since 1979.
Cds are better in every way (quality wise), but the data in it doesn't. Inside today's CD reside music that kill the benefit of the media, he said in the video have better dynamic and what not but the studio just don't utilize it. Today's vinyl is produced at their maximum potential like mastering music to utilize high dynamic that vinyl allowed (which is actually lower than CD) also noise floor is worse in vinyl, afterall vinyl user has a high end audio system, with this they can sell much higher price. CD is marketed toward normal person who doesnt have high end equipment so making the sound perfect is not a priority anymore. And actually both CD and Vinyl data all digitally made. thank god loudness war is a big thing anymore so you will find a digital album labeled as LP version or other name which is basically a music that mastered for vinyl but not pressed they digitalize it instead, this thing sound the same way if not better than an actual vinyl and this mastered version also can be distributed through CD but they just don't. That's why people said vinyl is better but in reality the music in it is better because if they want it, those music can be distributed digitally no problem.
Brad Wooldidge La De Da!?
As are homeopathic remedies. What's your point again?
I appreciate that they took significant time here to discuss the history of home audio, and with authentic museum pieces.
Exactly what I thought too.
Welcome to something modern showcases can never do.
Agreed, those cd players were amazing museum pieces.
the year the greatest selling album came out, thriller
She leaves a lot of details out even, like stereo sound of later lp’s, or even dolby surround for cd( not to confuse with dolby noice filtering)
The compact disc together with the laserdisc are two of the most mind boggingly advanced technologies of their era.
The way they were so proud of the creation of CDs is heartwarming. It feels like we’re not this passionate about revolution anymore… Every single year these companies come up with a new iPhone, Galaxy, OLED TV, a robot vacuum or whatever thing swearing that they’re revolutionary, but back then, people were proud to affirm that they took their time to come up with an object that is still useful to this day - after almost 40 years.
Today's tech is so revolutionary, we can't even catch up to what even is happening. May be people like you in next 50 years will appreciate what we are doing today
@@kishananuraag It is revolutionary the fact that I have a phone, camera, notepad, wallet and plenty more things into one single gadget in my hand right now, but I don’t think my current device is so much more game changing than its previous model launched just last year, even though the manufacturer claims everything in it is “even more revolutionary” when there’s just a few enhancements to what already existed. That’s what I tried to say. 😬
It's really not the same to compare a new iPhone model with a new technology. They didn't praise every new model of something that came out back then. Smartphones have been revolutionary, and they have been seen as such. But there can't be revolutionary technology all the time and it wasn't back then. The only difference to that time is that many things have been new and never been seen before.
@@WujiErTaiji I was just about to say something similar.
Because we now now, it's all marketing. They want our money and we behave like an accepting whore. No fun
How I miss this elegant, articulate presentation that used to be the norm.
Yes. These days it's all CGI and hyperactive presentation about the technology .
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Today it will be someone in a turtle neck sweater on stage trying to sound "profound" and "inspiring" instead of just talking about the technology.
@TruthIsABitterPill idiocrazy
I’d imagine part of that was the absence or antiquity of editing tech at the time. There probably little to no room for a personal spin on delivery. So much of this sort of thing probably needed to be presented as clearly with as little fluff as possible to minimize possible mistakes and needs for re-takes.
I love the ending statement of how it might be possible to store stuff on a chip in the near future.
Like... did she just casually predict SD cards? 🤣
Yeah this video was surprisingly forward-thinking. But I doubt even they could have predicted the concept of streaming music over the air, on demand.
@ghost mall yeah, they were called ROM chips. totally existed back then but the limitations in audio codecs and the amount of memory able to be stored on those chips made it impossible to playback actual music but they could have totally seen that in the future with bigger ROM chips (SD cards), and better processing power then it would be the next leap
Either that, or in SSDs
Sonia Humphrey did lived to see music on SD cards became a reality.
integrated circuits/chip was invented in the late 50's and this video i think was in the late 70's so im pretty sure they were aware about that thing could eventually happen.. 😏
RIP Jeff Watson. Loved Towards 2000 as a kid.
В начале 80-х это воспринималось как настоящее техническое чудо! Наступившее будущее.
You know you are old when you remember watching this when it was originally transmitted :)
OMG you're from the past? What was it like back then?
How does it feel growing old? I'm 24 yo and already feels old af
You know you are old when you use the word transmitted instead of aired
Give me your money
Gosh, I'm 28 and I already feel decrepit lol
2089:
- Dad, what is CZcams?
- An ancient radio, or something like that.
It is fascinating to think about how our technology will be seen by future generations.
If radio will still be a thing
A gathering ground for bigots, antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and cat video enthusiasts.
@@rudolphg76 You have perfectly summed up the internet!
But radio is older than CZcams that doesn’t make any sense
I can't believe this was actually recorded back in the 80s. Even if one puts oneself in the shoes of the people of that time, one can realize the great leap that CDs made regarding their predecessors. Personally, I still buy music discs that I'd like to get, mainly because they have lossless quality, unlike mp3 files.
MP3 can be lossless
I have a 6 Disk CD player in my 2003 Camry. The Camry was made 21 years after this video, and it has been 21 years since the Camry was made. I graduated in '84. Time goes by so fast. I'll be dead soon.
Anyone who heard their first CD in person during that time will completely remember it! There was a guy in my college dorm in 1987 whose parents were rich, so of course he had a CD player and quite a few discs. I remember hearing Madonna's "Live to Tell" and being completely blown away by how clear and distortion-free it was. I never heard cassettes the same way again. What an amazing time that was.
The lack of wow and flutter was mind blowing
I don't recall when they first released but I was part of the era of burning your own songs and music on cds and it was beautiful having so many blank CD-R disc feeling like a DJ at the time lol
@@LonghornsLegend Right?! That was so amazing and fun at the time, including making your own CD labels and case inserts 😁 It was also great that you could put anything on CDs - music, backups, etc.
Even to this day it's the same. A real disc of an album will always sound better then from CZcams or a streaming device. FACTS
@@Odismokes Preach! The digitally remastered discs of older albums sound especially good.
I’m old enough to remember the first time I saw a CD. The rainbow colors it made had me in amazement 😄
The kids now want vynil and turntables! Funny how things revolve
@@shuddupeyaface right ! Having records is cool again. Hahahahahahhaha
Shyt....... These human brains I tell ya
@@shuddupeyaface they spin right round like a record, right round.
@@465marko you should be cancelled for this
@@BillBiggs1 why lol its a good song
man, imagine how exciting this must have been back in the day. a completely new, groundbreaking technology that doesn't seem to have any drawbacks. very rarely do you see something like this.
Blockchain.
Commercial internet changed literally the world, 25-20 years ago. Much much more than the CDs.
@@Nathan-qz6wu Hard to describe blockchain as a consumer product, let alone one with no drawbacks.
I absolutely love how excited the guy was talking about the CD player
I was a teenager in the 80s. My life was cassettes and vinyl. My grandparents had 8-track in their car and in their home. When the CD came out, it wasn't the quality of the sound that impressed me. It was the convenience. Going from track one to track two and then back to track one if I wanted to so quickly was amazing.
I was a teenager in the late 80s. My parents owned vinyls I owned cassettes.
Random access to songs was indeed the biggest advantage of CDs. The superior sound quality was always secondary. In fact, these days most people do not mind sacrificing some sound quality (via lossy compression) in order to have the convenience of random access to thousands of songs.
Remember the cassettes that came out that would automatically stop when you fast forward and rewinded? And then CD’s came out and changed everything!!
You were teenager and speaking of grand parents who owned cars. Sounds great because your grandparents inspire of being from 20's generation owned cars. It was Not possible for many even in the richest natons to own cars at that time.
@@reconquistahinduism346 most people could afford cars in the 80s, what the hell are you talking about?
I still think CDs are a technological marvel. Multiple disciplines had to come together: laser optics, optical processing, electro mechanics, sampling theory, servo control, error correction, digital signal processing, analogue electronics, and so forth.
@@uncomfortableshirt3870 Nonsense, maybe if you were a slob, but otherwise the durability is excellent. Much better than the LP's it replaced, where actually just playing it would degrade it. The dynamic range is also much wider than on LP's. There were a lot of CD's that are still prized for their quality among the audiophile community. That's why CD transports and they're accompanying DACS are experiencing a comeback. It really was a revolution in many ways.
i love cds.
@@uncomfortableshirt3870 I'm sorry, what? Heavily compressed? You just owned yourself with that comment, because unless you're talking about ripped movies/songs, the thing that characterizes CD audio is that it's uncompressed, unlike pretty much anything else you hear nowadays, no matter how good the compression.
And if you doubt the engineering feat that was creating a polycarbonate disc rotating at 500 RPM and yet was still capable of reading grooves that are barely a micron in size, and produces very clear stereo sound with 90+ dB of dynamic range and minimal distortion, well you gotta be very ignorant or very dumb to mock that achievement.
@@uncomfortableshirt3870 you don't know what you are talking about
@@uncomfortableshirt3870 you're confused. You're thinking of dynamic range compression aka "loudness". Loudness is very different to the kind of compression that is used to make file sizes smaller. Yes loudness ruins music, but it is nothing inherit in the CD format. Any format can record music that has a compressed or uncompressed dynamic range. CDs really were an incredible technology and are about as good as it gets from a music quality perspective.
How long ago it was. The elegance of the presenters truly deserves respect
These sort of programmes were usually laughably off with their predictions, but she was spot on with that last one. Amazing.
I have never seen a better illustration of how a CD works in the past 40 years, very nice :)
I can also recommend another very informative video on the subject, Errors aren't forever, Stan Baggen, Jack van Lint. They go into much more detail as far as the mechanics of a typical compact disc system is concerned, but, even more important, also touch on the basics of the error correction process which makes CDs such a robust form of storing digital information.
Definetly
Being an engineer by mind I always wanted to know how CDs use to work and Today I got answer after 15 years.
Scratch proof
I'm not watching this on a traditional television. What would this man say if he knew I'm watching on a telephone?
And not just a telephone, but a mobile one at that
Is your telephonial apparatus powered by steam?
A Koster mobile cellular communications device
@@arttheclown9458 Indeed! A Mobilus celuraris communicationem deviciea, as the Romans would have called it!
He'd have the biggest, most powerful, most beautiful nerd-gasm in all of human history
I love the shape of that rectangular Sony CD player, must of been the height of technology to have in the home at the time.
And he picked it up and shook it! If our CD player was simply tapped it would skip, and that was in the 90s.
Yep. And fingerprints would upset our component (1990) as would excessive humidity in the room if the room was cold (say 60F). Eventually cheaper pressed CDs were troublesome with rough outer edges scraping on the platter area.
Promises and reality are different things.
The most amazing thing about cds is that if you bought a cd in 1983, it really doesn't degrade as long as it remains scratch free.
Sadly that is not true. The shelf life of a CD can be up to 200 years, but some only last 25. I already have dealt with degradation in my DVD collection, which I subsequently digitalized and now every few years put onto a bigger HD, to preserve it. CDs and DVDs do degrade.
@@Dominian1 Because of how a DVD has layers glued together, it's likely to have a shorter life span than the CD, which only has a single polycarbonate layer and no glue. CDs are not forever, but they are highly stable.
Avoid ultraviolet light if you can to protect the layers from separating
She's got so much classy swag, I'm enchanted.
I noticed...
Same tbh she’s so elegant
In the 80's, there was Lady's. Today......... you can see it every Day.
Class will out
If only more women were like this, nice air of class and elegance, well spoken.
The atmosphere of the world would be so much greater.
It's almost surreal seeing such everyday inventions being presented as new and extraordinary.
Especially new and extraordinary stuff thats now basically obsolete. I got goosebumps when they mentioned putting music on a silicone chip. Man these presenters had no idea we would be walking around with super computers in our pockets and ANY song in the world available in it at any time.
@@Masked_Official I've always been grateful for technology. Imagine how much worse this pandemic would be without telecommunications.
@@srbrant5391 oh i bet... but without it we would all be huddling with family and staying away from others. I am happy for technology cause it helps me communicate with my gf while we are apart and waiting for her temp visa. Its been a few months apart and without discord, skype and such, would have been over. :(
I especially appreciate the marketing. Let us be kind and say it is 'optimistic' marketing of calling CDs scratch-proof.
Not to mention, pointing out where others had failed, as well as, predicting an even smaller future. Not too bad.
This is why sometimes I just love the random CZcams recommendations. Very educational and appreciative of old technology.
"Educative"? I pretty sure that's not a word in any English dictionary. Try _educational_
@the-naked-sailor Yup, missed that one. This is not my first lenguaje, so, thanks.
I'd perhaps suggest a more friendly approach if you feel the NEED to let someone know that they have made a mistake. Otherwise, you kinda just sound like a d*ck.
Try something like:
Hey, just to let you know, the adjective for education is "educational" and not "educative."
But thanks again! Have a lovely 2024 ♡
I remember my friend bought a CD player for his car back in the 80's and i was listening to cassettes at the time in mine, i was blown away by the clarity of the music, i just had to have one.
That silicone chip is a SD card wow
NEC invented and patented silicon chip stored music in 1976, it was shown as a sample in Tommorows World. Later in 2007 NEC sued Creative Labs and Apple and won millions
Silicon chip inside our heads!
SD card? Mate - that stuff is being streamed directly over the internet.
Only goons listen to music on SD cards.
@@pqrstzxerty1296 strange. patent protection expires after 20 years.
"the dynamic range is remarkable! -90db!"
producers in the 2000's: nah we don't need all of that
rick rubin in the 00s:
Compression rules!
Sad but true.
MLG compilation youtubers: *allow us to introduce ourselves*
All of the 2000's cult recordings were spoiled by compression.
This technology was well received by the record industry. I remember buying the best Denon CD player I could afford (about $400) in 1984 and very willingly replacing my favorite 33 RPM records with CDs.
Only 6 years later in 1988, I worked for a company that was scanning documents and saving them on CDs.
Sonia Humphrey
She passed away in 2011.
She was such a beautiful and classy woman for sure!
She was Beautiful. Very Beautiful.
She was only 63 - couldn't find what caused her death??
Haggard Pillock “they” killed her
Classly Women.............Modern Era...........2019...........Do not compute.
Rest In Peace.
You can notice how intelligent and humble these people were, they knew they had the best technology of their time (and of all time at that point) in their hands, but the best was still to come. And how fast did it come. It's impossible not to wonder how will the world be 30 years from now.
@EM Quantum Computing has entered the room.
I actually remember being 16 years old in 1993 riding in my friends car listening to CDs and we had a discussion that how could it possibly get more advanced than this? I mean this is digital sound being read by lasers (frikkin LAZERS!). Well, we were kind of right. CDs were the pinnacle of tangible sound media. But who then could have imagined that sound media would soon be intangible. Just data stored on a special device called an MP3 player. You could hold the player in your hands but not the media. And it really wasn't that far away in 1993.
I can't believe how much electronics has advanced in my lifetime. I built my first computer when I was 16 in 1980. It had 1K of ram and the kit cost me AU$99.00. Advanced to a System 80 computer (16K ram), a local copy of the TRS80. Then a Vic20, then Commodore 64. In 1985 I purchased an IBM XT with dual floppies and a 10 megabyte HDD with a green screen monitor. It retailed for over $6000.00, I had a mate programming for IBM who got me an ex demo for $2500.00. It cost me a small fortune to upgrade the ram from 256K to 640K and it was on a full length card.
Nowadays, my pc has 32gb ram and 8tb of ssd and hdd and runs at 4.3ghz.
Can't wait to see what the next 30 years brings.
@@masti733
No, it has not, and it won't serve the consumer market until possibly many many decades in the future, which would mean that Moore's law is violated.
Cry much?
I was driving all over California for my Job in the eighties. I remember the FM Stations were really proud of the CD. The Mighty KMET in LA was one of the greats. Paraquat Kelly, Ace Young, and Cynthia Fox. Long gone but not forgotten.
I remember getting a CD player back in early 80s.
It blew my mind.
I have about 1000 CDs.
If you have a budget for quality stereo, about $1000,
Get a quality CD transport such as Cambridge Audio CXC and a quality Digital to Analog Converter, you will be blown away by its sound quality 👌.
Legend
CD is so much better than vinyl overall... I'm glad at least a few people are realizing the RIAA EQ curve exists (vinyl is literally a compressed audio format, unlike CD... It's mind blowing how many audiophiles pretend this isn't a fact... All you have to do is look up "RIAA EQ vinyl" but the people who really need to are the people who are sunk thousands of dollars into the hobby. CDs sound better, last way way longer with much rougher care, and are way smaller and easier to store. It's actually really weird that vinyl is more popular than CD, and I expect that to change in the next few decades once enough people think about what they are doing for more than a few seconds. I have records and turntables too, but I haven't had a turntable hooked up in years, because it's way easier to turn on the CD caurosel and let it play all day.
The CD must have seemed like absolute space magic when it first came out.
No. It seemed like an easily understood technological advancement.
@@VoteForBukele Maybe to the more tech savvy. How many general consumers today even understand optical technology?
@@FlyboyHelosim people today are historically stupid and don’t care how their devices work. I know it’s hard to believe. But the world has changed drastically in the past 30 years.
@@VoteForBukele Well, Weird Science (1985) portrayed computers as being able to create women.
@@jp3813 historically. stupid.
This lady's absolute class is beautiful to watch/listen to. The ending... wow.
I’m not sure if she had a script in front of her or what but she nailed those lines, and the takes were so long. She was a great presenter.
@@headknocker2020 Her swagger and elegance is what does it for me.
@Redemption I dont how old you are but no one uses SD cards for music or even have music locally saved on the phone. Thats old people stuff already 😂 everything is streamed nowadays
@@KingdomArtz he was right, if you don't have mobile Internet available you can save e. g. Spotify Playlist to your phone in app. So SSDs not SD cards are indeed silicon chips on which audio is being saved after the golden age of the CD.
@@KingdomArtz LOL you think music that is streamed isnt saved on a drive somewhere hahaha OMG you are so old.
What a weird comment
Can remember when my father got his first cd player with tons of cd's about 1986. We were stunned about the technology leap.
I bought my first two CDs in 1983, the then latest Herb Alpert and the classic Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue….the first of about a thousand, in a tiny new section at Tower Records. Those two still play perfectly.
5:18 the gentleman puts a CD in the player, via television broadcast that was never meant to be heard in high fidelity. I bet his mind would be blown (then) if he heard his original tele-broadcast being replayed via CZcams through a computer played through a standard stereo. The bass and clarity in the original taping was extremely good.
@SteelRodent So true. It blew my dad's mind when I took a 1/8 mono/headphone to a split RCA and hooked the TV up to the stereo. It was good, better than the TV, but still mono.
100 years from now time travel would be invented and people will visit you the exact moment you posted this comment CZcams.
@@bruceli9094 True
100 years from now the human race will be extinct. By 2050 we will run out of natural resources and by 2100 the human race will be on its way out.
@@bruceli9094 time travel can never exist. Forward yes, but the ability to go backwards, never!
Who's watching in 1981? I can't wait until this invention is released.
1980 here, 3 years left for me..
youtube doesn't lie! said you made the comment 5 months ago!
Me - my internet speed is terrible, you probably won't be able to read this for 38 years.
@@Blake4014 That's the problem when you use Internet Explorer
can't wait!! i can't even shake my record player without a lower dynamic range.
What a fascinating little clip. I loved the introduction! I also enjoyed seeing some of those early CD players. I remember seeing some similar to those in people's homes. We didn't actually have a CD player in our house until the very late '80s. It really did feel like space age technology back then, as commonplace or even dated as it seems now.
3 Things:
1. How beautiful, pleasant and informative this ad is, to the point of first recorded thing on a recording device i.e. mary had a little lamb by Edison himself. These can very well be questions in a quiz show and now I know it.
2. Hi-fi guys = Nerds
3. "Till the time someone figures to put music in a silicon chip! Now don't laugh, I've been assured that day will arrive soon too" - The foresight in retrospect is mind-blowing to watch.
Can you just imagine the rapid progress in technology over the last 150 years. From a phonograph that was heavy, expensive and only had one song per cylinder to a smartphone with millions of songs available that can be played anywhere anytime.
It's scary to think that the device I'm using to respond to your comment will be seen as old and inferior in the next hundred years or so. We see these discs and cassettes, along with their players as quaint and almost silly now, but soon our so called "smart" devices will be looked back on as mere steps towards advancement into a better age. It's a pity we will be dead before we get to see what comes next...
@@Ithurtssobad it will be seen as old and inferior in less than a decade... Just think what phones and computers were like 10 years ago? Especially phones
@@Ithurtssobad can't wait for people to find this comment in 10+ years and laugh because it's already obsolete now
try to use a 2012 computer or smartphone, it's basically impossible to use now
i remember my grandparents' 2009 computer
man did I use that thing in the early 2010s
it was impossible to use after like 2017 or something
way too slow
Scotty: Captain. Just watched a documentary on technology in 2022 & Earth was in the Dark Ages. No man was on Mars, cancer wasn't cured, & travel at light speed was just a dream.
Kirk: Amazing what imagination & perspiration can accomplish.
Spock: Actually gentlemen, as I recall from my Academy days, it was The Great Unification which resulted in an explosion of discoveries & inovation.
Dr. McCoy: Hogwash. Scientists & inventors didn't perform miracles. Governments finally enforced patents & the markets rewarded their efforts.
The funniest thing about it: people 150 years ago and earlier lived without electricity and electrical gadgets for millions of years. And if the electricity will be turned off all over the world today, 90% of people will immediately die. :-)
I still look upon CD's as one of those rare inventions where a new product was everything a new product should be. It had this incredibly futuristic look, was hard to scratch sounded great and was nothing like the product it replaced.
They're easy to scratch though
And yet people still think Vinyl sounds better for some reason
@@graalcloud They're not "easy to scratch" at all. A heavy speck of dust can scratch a vinyl. You have to really mistreat a CD to scratch it.
Sony and Phillips really brought so many new technologies to the masses, it's incredible.
In the days when taking a headphone jack off a product is considered innovation, these companies were truly making magical stuff.
@@graalcloud Compared to CDs, with Vynil you had to have steady hands and not accidentally bump the "cartrigdge(head)", make sure you've adjusted the weight properly etc, otherwise you'd easily have scratched it. A small scratch here/there on a CD won't affect it, only the deep scratches do. The material of Vinyl is quite soft comparted to optical discs.
Then about 15 years later, AOL littered the Earth with them.
I still love and buy all my music via compact disc here in almost 2024.
Just gonna pause it here, and say, I like this lady! I really like how she speaks, and teaches us about old technologies. I could listen to her for hours.
She's cute too
She could read the phone book, and make it sound good.
Especially numbers
She goes into some other pitch which sounds arrogant But its fascinating
@@haveatyou1 She is cute, and so British with her enunciation.
@@jameslacey5474 she's Australian.
"Don't laugh. I'm assured that day is in fact, not far off."
She predicted memory cards all being solid state, even Sony now uses cartridges instead of discs on PS Vita.
Solid state really is the future. That being said, I am going to miss the times when media was not all solid state.
Time traveler confirmed.
Russians know all too well what media being solid state is.
1982 was the release year of the Atari 2600, a game console using cartridges that could carry soundtracks. Just an example that putting music on silicon wasn't a completely far-fetched idea, it even already reached the private homes in a way.
Would be a bit like predicticting VR/AR becoming a part of our daily life today. It's not obvious and some people refuse the idea probably like they did back then, but it's not that wild.
@@saganakist Yeah, but I say this because people back then really did believe silicon chips will reach their storage limits very quickly.
No joke, my dad once believed that silicon chips would max out before it can reach CD capacity, people back then were very convinced that disks/discs were the future because silicon chips had a significant raise in price and has no means of high end super loading speeds like some HDDs have at the time, it was only several years later that super fast silicon chips appeared and the price dropped so much that people were able to enjoy the benifits of silicon chip storage.
WTF is a "PS Vita"?
I keep going back to this. It’s so quaint.
My family had our first DVD player back in late 90's when I was in my high school. It was an all in one music player of cassette, radio, and a 5 tray DVD players with a digital equalizer and a twin stereo speakers.
“The discs should be no more expensive than records now.” CDs were actually cheaper to manufacture than cassettes and vinyl but the record labels figured out they could charge at least a 50% premium to early adopters and the inflated prices stuck. (Plus they got people to repurchase albums they already owned in an analog format!) The recording industry is pure evil.
I love how people have the energy to always point out the negative of everything but never recognize the positive.
Yep. I remember in 1990 LPs & cassettes cost $19.95 while CDs were $29.95 (AUD).
NO.....cheap are depends on whats era is that. Now its really common to see old tech actually more cheaper then the new tech. And cd on 1982 actually are really expensive 😱😱😱😱😱
But at least we got our revenge later when we ripped them all instead of buying downloads...
I did that. still have abut 50 burnt cds. And my old records and tapes.
I see a lot of people pooh-poohing CD in the comments here. "They get scratched," etc. I think a lot of people don't appreciate how revolutionary the format was. They do not scratch through normal use (i.e. if you put it back in the case and not on the floor of your car), and the music itself never gets damaged unless you completely destroy the disc (unlike vinyl in which touching the surface can introduce audible scratches and pops, or tape that gets stretched).
Digitizing music was also the revolutionary step that allowed all of the conveniences we enjoy today - saving video and audio as computer files, downloadable music, streaming music and video, digital broadcasts - all of this was nonexistent before CD blazed the trail, because it was all trapped in analog formats that required a physically pressed (or magnetized) copy.
True. The data is actually on the underside of the label, which is usually pretty tough. But a vinyl, if you drop it or drop the needle on it can get damaged really easily.
Through the 80s up until now, with all the cds I’ve listened to, I’ve heard maybe two cds skip.
Cassettes were the worst idea ever for music and yet it sold more than CDs and anything.
Cassettes audio quality was pretty bad, especially if the tape got damaged/wrinkly. The tape also used to get tangled, which was so annoying...
@@Seroxm13 Cassettes actually sounded very good, if you bought decent quality cassettes, and good quality machines to play them on. And they were far more tactile to use than a CD. But, times do move on, and even digital music files weren't great in the beginning. Most file formats in use made music sound pretty flat and compressed, until FLAC and WAV files became prevalent as LOSSLESS codecs. But they are only as good as the source material, and do nothing to improve what is copied as a file.
@@hermanmunster3358 meh, I remember using cassettes a lot and their audio quality never being that good compared to CDs or digital, they were exactly like VHS tapes, whose quality image were pretty bad too. And the cassettes I used were from popular artists/companies like Nsync, Boyz 2 Men, Space Jam, BSB, Disney, etc.
Cassettes and VHS longevity wasn't that great.
I remember being 14 years old in 1982 and watching this episode with my Dad on ABC TV in Australia. From memory, Elton John's "Two Low for Zero" was one of the first albums to be released on Compact Disc in Australia.
Growing up with radio, proud to own a record player as a teenager, witnessed the triumph of the compact disc from the beginning and its downfall with the USB stick, today I fight my way through the mysteries and secrets of streaming.
Born in 1948 ;)
Wow! What was jesus and Moses like in art class?
5:34 I love this guy. He's so earnest and just such an obvious audio nerd excited to share the details of audio with a layperson audience. He's just awesome lol.
can hear the aussie in him hahaha
That's the way television used to be before it was taken over by George Soros and his delirious zero energy, maximum experimental jabbing Woke Mob.
I agree. Charming lad, instantly likeable
As I'm an audio enthusiast too, I could instantly see that on him, how cool!
I’m pretty sure he became a host and presenter on a TV show called “Beyond 2000” in the late 80s.
I remember when I first saw compact disc. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen.
duke , me too. In the 80s a friend of mine bought a CD before he had a player to play it on. We both thought this disc looks amazing.
I’m not that old, but I remember watching movies on VHS and switching to DVD. It did felt magical.
Excellent presentation of the history of sound from the gramophone to compact disc players.
My first experience I remember with CD was in ‘87 in college. Dude had a massive library, full stereo system and a Bose speaker system. First music I remember was Steely Dan “Peg” and “Hey Nineteen” and I was blown away. Remember that like it was yesterday.
Yet there’s something natural about the old LP’s on a quality phono. Nowadays the medium is the air. Bet these folks would’ve never imagined that to be typical reality. Imagine what the next 30 years will bring, if you can. The iPhone is about 15 years old.
Man, the late 80's-90's were really a blast of a time to be alive.
Peak civilization
Agreed, we have a unique perspective on current time due to growing up in the 80's and 90's
Peak society in the US was the late 90s.
Anyone outside the First World would say that was the worst time to be alive.
*'80s, *'90s
"Someone perfects a method to put Beethoven's 9th on a silicon chip, don't laugh." Yeah, that and movies, and pictures, on an SD card, in my pocket, portable, telephone.
Yeah...kinda makes you wonder what technology we will see in the next 20 years doesn't it ?
midi
Made me shed a tear instead
We did it!
lol ya.
Am i the only one who wonders what it was like to be born grow old and die and nothing changes at all? Like what was the exciting stuff you would talk about? The new houses roof? only 300ish years of humans have had this. Crazy.
Pretty fun to see. As a teen I remember in the early 80's these coming out and ultimately traded in all my cassette tapes for cds. Still love listening to my cds today.
The most amazing thing in this video are the presentation skills of the lady. Astounding.
I was a sales representative for Sony when CD's were introduced....what a technological marvel !!! At that time ! A lot of memories...especially of older people hearing this fantastic sound. Still today I use my old turntable &vinyl and have,as others, a CD collleection I use daily !
You still actually use CD's? I didnt realise people still played CD's?
I still use CDs. Thanks to people dumping their music collections I've gotten around 2,000+ CDs then I backed it all up on a hard drive. No subscriptions, no lock out, no bull.
@@Mirokuofnite fr
I have a cd collection that I go years in between playing one.
CD sound sounds way better than digital streaming
1983: Technology of the future
2020: Use soap to wash hands
I'm 55 years old. Don't it seem like we are going backwards as far as technology is concerned.
wkwkwkwk 🤣😂
😘
2021, umbrella Corp releases t virus
1983: Lasers produce perfect music
2020: Don't cough on your neighbor
And just within 40 years, the CD has become obsolete. But as with the previous comment. A lot of love and respect to the creators and to the device that gave so much color to life.
Even better that it was replaced by vinyl records, of all things. 😂
In Japan CDs are still a thing ❤
Compression and shorter soft to loud dynamic range ruined CDs, but today's vinyl share the same problem so it's only an illusion.
Wow...I am amazed that at 8:15 she talks about silicon memory chips to come after CDs...all this was happening way back in 1982!
8:22 Beethovens 9th was a default sample audio file on every WinXP installation and I had XP on a SSD in 2012, which means I literally had Beethovens 9th on a silicon chip. This woman predicted the future.
It was actually possible to store that part of Beethovens 9th on a chip already in the late 1980s, at least technically speaking. Memory chips with 4 Mbit existed back in 1987-88 (and 16 Mbit in 1990).
@@herrfriberger5 wow didn't know that!
@@herrfriberger5 But you didn't have mp3 back in the days, so fitting anything on 4 MB was tough
@@laacisbezgalvas That may actually be three slight misconeptions, kind of... :)
1) I was talking about 4 Mega _bit_ = 0.5 Mega _byte._
2) The techniques that mp3 was based on were all well known in the late 1980s (and used for Philips digital compact cassette in 1992, for instance).
3) That wma-file used a similar compressing technique in order to store one minute and 15 seconds of hifi-music in just 599 kilobyte, or 0.6 MB. (Using a wav-file coding or the old raw format of the CD-standard would have given just 3.4 seconds of hifi-music in that 599 KB space.)
sound chips were already available in the 80s
She knew... she knew...
Yeah, a lot of people did. They knew digital solid state Audio was coming.
What do you mean?
@@therestorationofdrwho1865 yeah but most thought you would buy the music on a chip. Basically like a cd but instead it is a chip in a cartridge.
But the truth is it basically went from cd straight towards downloading and streaming skipping that sillicon chip stage all together.
Well the silicon chip stage kinda is today with flash storage in phones and sd cards, the distribution is just kinda different than expected at the time
@@MGThePro what
The CD's initial design was with a very tiny label, that it looks like a small record, but they changed it. There wasn't a real need for two sides.
Interestingly there was another concept with 12" laser discs and longer playing time, but the decision for compact disc was better, so it could replace vinyl records and also prerecorded compact cassettes and 8 track cartridges.
This was so well done and intriguing that it made me get excited for CDs again
The CD was a pretty amazing invention for the late 70s / early 80s.
80s/90s
UltraPop um, the CD was developed in the late 70s and released in the early 80s...
....but it looks a bit old fashioned nowadays.
@M B All my digital music is on a hard drive and much of it is at a higher resolution than Redbook CD.
Looking for, and inserting, a silver disc that you hope isn't scratched or mucky seems like a pain in the arse. Like getting up to change the TV volume - we all used to do it but that was in the old days.
@M B I have two systems: one based around a computer for sound when I'm working.
The second system which is for proper listening is based around a turntable. I haven't owned a CD player for over a decade.
have enjoyed this elegant presentation, being part of that history in my work/career, now at age nearly 83, 😉
Did you worked on the development?
I was in sales and service from 20 (years of age) on until retirement, have therefore a lot seen coming and going! Started in tubes, transistors later, from MONO Quadro and all. But NO, I was not involved in developping. THNX for asking!
Wow that’s awesome! What was it like back then? Did you prefer it more than now?
What is so sad is that younger people will never understand how rich life was before this computer age. You sir have lived through it all. The Young, just like me when I was young, already know everything. Anything worth knowing, right?
Enjoy the rest of the journey sir!
A museum of audio recordings in a video! Love it
WOW!!! The final statement!!!
I went to a party in 1982 and the host had the first Compact Discs that I had ever seen or heard. He had about a dozen of them. ( Beatles, Stones, Doors, CCR ) I commented that they looked like miniature albums. They sounded great and I was immediately hooked. I have a collection of about 500 compact discs now. I still play them in my home and on long car trips.
Thanks for sharing.
💪🔥
Quite a library
Did a fingerprint make it skip?
I collected cds for years starting in the early 90s. I still listen to them. Ill always have a place in my heart for cds!
I had a Yamaha CD player in 1983. Didn't die until 2004.
Buff Barnaby I bet we had the same one. I bought a Yamaha CD player for $499 in 1982 or 1983
I have 2 Sony mini-compos (with CD and cassette players) from 1999 which are used extensively each day. CD player still working ok, touch wood.
A friend of my father owns a bar here in Brazil. It is an old bar full of old drunkards. And the guy uses a 3DO (old Panasonic video game from 1993) as his cd player. He bought it at a flea market and has no idea that it's vintage today. And 3DO works great.
Sorry for my bad english.
raphaelcoliveira I had a 3do too!
I still have a CD player from 1994 damn it's nostalgic!
So, we meet again random recommended video. Fortunately, you really hit a home run this time. Thank you for getting it right, even if that is an extremely rare occurrence.
Why are all these videos so good straight to the point no cringe yet still entertaining
because modern companies like to infantilize everything in an offputting and cringy mode of condescension.
8:17 She knew about the future, she just described an MP3 player in 1981, also she said someone already told her it was possible but just not yet
That part really made my eyebrows rise!
@@bruceccorwin mine too, I know they knew it was possible but to hear them already discussing it almost 20 years before the world was using it blew my mind. Sounds like the time period was the only limitation not the idea
MP3 is not exactly high quality, CD is still better than MP3.
@@larrybell1859 I know, that's why there's lossless, FLAC, etc but in this instance she was talking about the mp3 player since that was the only one it could've been at that time even though it might've not had a name yet but it was first-ish, there's some off shoots before it became the mainstream media of choice. CD's are 1,411 kpbs usually and an MP3 compresses that down normally to 320 kbps, physical will always sound better than digital simply because it's made for all use cases where as an MP3 needs to play the song while also being small enough to store on something/stream/transfer/etc...so the average consumer doesn't have time to wait for quality which is why they said as long as it's not too big and could be understood get it to me meanwhile a CD just works because the company/artist are presenting their best product and after taking so long it better sound superb
@@drebone1986
Yes, I know but more and more people are noticing the difference. Hopefully, the CD market will not stop.
"Distortion is only 0.05%."
Audiophile "Ow! My ears!"
About a hundred times less than a vinyl LP.
digital distortion is different than analog distortion. This is also why clipped audio peaks are absolute ear-cancer inducing compared to overloaded analog audio. Because digital can't go higher and is crashing against a border limitation where nothing can go any louder than that. People STILL comparing CDs with Vinyl in 2020 is absolutely ridiculous. Somehow the butthurt never stops.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 The dynamic range of digital is FAR greater than vinyl. A competent recording engineer can easily avoid digital overload. If he's too stupid to do so, it's his fault, not the technology.
@@robertromero8692 I love both CD and Vinyl for various reasons. And i know how good a CD can sound like if the mastering engineer behind it actually cares Not only keeping an eye on the dynamic range but also making sure the maximum volume peaks don't go too high. If you really love music there's just not one single medium. As someone who loves audio technology, there's no way i could live with ONLY CDs or only Vinyl or only tape. You gotta have it all if you really enjoy it. Vinyl shares the same fate as CDs. If the people behind the mastering are complete idiots or are cutting costs… you get a noisy, terrible sounding release where the sound is already ruined at the master-cutting process and during the mixing.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 There's a lot I don't know about spinny disks. Thanks for the insight. :)
Wow i can't wait to see and hear those compact disc. I'm so excited
that last statement is pretty accurate 😮
A CD player in a car? Now your just talking crazy, that will never happen.
He almost predicted the disc man :p
Computer screens either that’s something from Star Wars
How about cars with computer-controlled engines, instead of carburetors and breaker point ignition like the kind that always worked just fine for good ol' Grandad?
It'll NEVER happen!
Yeah i agree . That kind of thing is IMPOSSIBLE
How about bluetooth and listening to music of your smartphone...oh wait! I can hear the flaps of white coats.
Definitely picking one of these up, 1982 can't get here soon enough!
I remember they used to say in the 80s that CDs would stop working after 20 years.. If you take careof the CD it will still live on. Yes, I scratched my CDs, but only because we used it as a frisbee and never put it in its jewel case.
This is an amazing video. They did a great job commenting about current and previous technology. But I find myself impressed by how they kind of predicted the future, saying that the CDs would come successful, could be in the car and specially that you can have computers playing music. This video is certainly worth watching, sharing and preserving.