Happy birthday to the compact disc – which was twenty years old on Saturday. Despite initial skepticism for the new format over 1.8 billion CDs have now been sold around the world, the format overtaking vinyl in terms of sales way back in 1998. New formats have arrived in more recent times, of course, but neither DATs or MiniDiscs took off big time with consumers. Many now, of course, predict it will be MP3s that ultimately compete with CDs for dominance – by 2013 CDs may well be nowhere near the flagship technology in the music world.
Mar 3, 2003
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CD is 20
The compact disc turned 20 on Saturday, with 1.8 billion sold worldwide, though MP3s may compete with it for dominance by 2013.