mrjuju on 10 January 2008
I was always under the impression that it was actually Philips that truly pioneered the CD as a media. At the time, Sony was trying to create a disk based system using existing Laserdisk tech, when Philips brought them their work; a much smaller, more compact disc that held far more information then Sony was aiming for. The two formed a partnership and thus the CD was born.
Whilst Sony did in fact help to pioneer and perfect the CD and CD players, they were not the inventors of it, that was Philips.
Or at least that's what I had been taught all those years ago.
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