Former Sony President Norio Ohga died over the weekend at the age of 81. Ohga was the head of Sony when the company introduced the compact disc to the world. That was three decades ago, when people ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Sony DADC is cutting about 100 workers at a western Indiana plant that began cranking out compact discs in the 1980s and will move all of the plant’s gaming and disc ...

Norio Ohga, the Sony executive who shaped Sony into a media empire and oversaw the development of the compact disc, has died of in Tokyo of multiple organ failure. He was 81. Ohga was a former opera ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

World’s first CD manufactured at Philips factory near Hanover, Germany, on August 17, 1982 Philips and Sony co-developed CD – over 200 billion CDs sold in last 25 years CD ushered in shift from ...

Memorializing the Compact Disc. Once upon a time, the CD was the ubiquitous music platform. Our story outlines how the disc-based music technology was adopted, loved and eventually abandoned by a ...

The man known as the 'father of the CD' has died aged 81. Former Sony president Norio Ohga recognised the potential of the CD’s superior sound quality from the start. In the 1970s, sceptics scoffed ...

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and ...

The former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, who was credited with developing the compact disc, has died aged 81, the company has said. Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of ...