Tomorrow's World - Compact Disc

i remember an episode on here where they smeared jam over the cd and placed it into the cd player!

Good GOd you demonstrated a revolutionary concept like the CD with an excerpt from the Bee Gees? FFS!

Yeah, you do have to worry about scratches.

This was not the first time Compact Disc it was shown on tomorrows world... I recall the presenter ( might have been Judith Hann) putting the CD under a telephone ( old style UK version that had a magnet to make the bell ring) to show that unlike cassette tape it would not be damaged by an electrical field and revealed that it was to be launched here in the UK first before the rest of the world.

That's a lovely little microwave, at the end.

I recall walking very slowly in an odd way to prevent my disc player jumping-if I went down a kerb The Human League would skip 3 tracks! We all looked stupid in the 80’s but I walked like John Cleese doing the ministery of silly walks 🤣

I was still holding out for the digital 8 track

Bought War Of The World on vinyl late 80s then got the CD a few years later the CD no longer works but the vinyl is fine. Same with Jaws the VHS still plays DVD keeps skipping they where stored properly but went kind of cloudy. So much for modern gimmicks.

I remember my 8 track player i had in my Capri. Doesn't seem that long ago the 70's, my god half a century 🙏

Sad thing is, I just inherited a Vinyl record that is nearly 50 years old & plays beautifully. They’re saying CD’s that old may not be playable due to disc rot! This is why vinyl is making a huge comeback!

And now we have utube.

Pra quem não sabe, essa música tocada chama-se "Paradise", dos bee gees. A música pertence ao álbum "living eyes", de 1981. Esse foi o primeiro álbum fabricado em CD no mundo (não foi publicado, apenas foi fabricado para fins de demonstração. O primeiro álbum a ser lançado em CD de fato dou do Bily Joel)

This has triggered me back to 1992 an mum buying "best of" CDs....

I remember the companies saying that scratches wouldn`t affect sound and that CDs would massively reduce the cost one would pay for an LP.

So my computing teacher has told me to look this up during lesson I'm confused

Like many, I have reverted back to Vinyl..it has more soul somehow..and a warmer feel to me 🤷‍♂️..not to mention the glorious album art you get with Vinyl..

Yesterdays world.

"Whether there is a market remains to be seen"...

In the early 80s Sony had a cd player as big as a breadbox and it was $10,000.00

Can someone please tell me...what the name of the last song they played just before this video ends

They also did a demo where they spread jam on it to show it would still play, disappointed that wasn’t in this video

The song he was playing was called "Paradise" by the BeeGees from the "Living Eyes" album.

1981, vinyl record is a obsolete technology. Cd is the future.
2022, Cd is a obsolete technology. Vinyl record is the new.

I hope there’s a market for this

wow can i buy one now looks great cant scratch it ? are you sure ?

Never mind the item - what a fantastic title sequence.

Wish I had one of those non-scratchable C.D's back in the day.

I love that stat about the track on a CD being 2.5 miles long (although I've seen it calculated elsewhere as up to 3.74 miles)

I want that Technics SLP10!!! Watched this when it first aired as a 6 year old and my two mates and I were totally blown away by it!

When everything was so simple

These discs are too flimsy and are easy to scratch they will never catch on

Life is all memory

This piece of plastic playing music? Nonsense. This fad will never catch on

Witchcraft !

if you dont have to worry about scratches on CDs why are so many of mine scratched to hell and skip or wont play?

I read the posts and I noticed that one said that it would never catch on. I believe he was wrong.😅

I remember watching tomorrow's world about the compact disc, it wasn't this one though it was another about how durable it was, they dragged in along a road attached to a car and it still played, it was later than 1983 I know this because I was not in the UK at that time sometime after 1985

They do scratch and they do stick...ddddddddddd..horrible sound.

Another new format. Guess I'll have to buy The White Album yet again.

I genuinely cannot tell what this comment section is lmao But I do know I love my CDs.

Physical media all the way baby. Digital content you can't never own at all. Streaming services are all about renting same goes for digital "content" purchases. You own nothing unless is actually physical media.

The disc will play music

Compact Disc. That was the system I ended up with and I LOVED it! Everybody else followed this system and produced a mixed bag of players and discs. The quality varied tremendously

How come this was broadcast in 1981 when the Compact disc was first introduced in 1982?

Will never catch on