The Sony CDP-101 is the world's first commercially released compact disc player. The system was launched in Japan on October 1, 1982 at a list price of 168,000 yen.
Sony CDP-101
CD player Sony CDP-101 on display at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan
Philips's CD-100
Front and rear views of the Sony CDP-30 CD player (produced circa 1984-1986).
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format. CD players were first sold to consumers in 1982. CDs typically contain recordings of audio material such as music or audiobooks. CD players may be part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, personal computers, or portable CD players such as CD boomboxes. Most CD players produce an output signal via a headphone jack or RCA jacks. To use a CD player in a home stereo system, the user connects an RCA cable from the RCA jacks to a hi-fi and loudspeakers for listening to music. To listen to music using a CD player with a headphone output jack, the user plugs headphones or earphones into the headphone jack.
A portable CD player
Sony CDP-101 from 1982, the first commercially released CD player for consumers
Philips CD100 from 1983, the first commercially released CD player in the USA and Europe
This disc is highly corroded. The error correction cannot correct all errors. Two minutes can be played, however.
