In March 1979, a prototype of a Compact Disc (CD) digital audio
system was publicly presented and demonstrated to an audience of
about 300 journalists at Philips in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
This milestone effectively marked the beginning of the digital
entertainment era. In the years to follow, the CD-audio system
became an astonishing worldwide success, and was followed by
successful derivatives such as CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD, and recently
Blu-ray Disc. Today, around the thirtieth anniversary of the
milestone, it is taken for granted that media content is stored and
distributed digitally, and the analog era seems long gone. This
book retraces the origins of the CD system and the subsequent
evolution of digital optical storage, with a focus on the
contributions of Philips to this field. The book contains
perspectives on the history and evolution of optical storage, along
with reproductions of key technical contributions of Philips to the
field.
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