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Re: [ARSCLIST] Early digital in Europe
On 09/12/07, Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Yes, but they still had separate production arms and I am sure that
>> they all
> entered the world of
>> digital differently. Decca built their own equipment in their famous
>> research
> lab. I'm still trying
>> to find out exactly how Philips and DG entered the digital world.
>>
>> By the time CD's came along, the three labels were centralized
>> enough that all
> their early CD's were
>> done in the Hanover plant. Titles with enough orders in the American
>> markets
> would also be
>> manufactured in the North Carolina plant once that was built. I just
>> borrowed
> a stack of Solti CD's
>> from the library and the very earliest were all done in Germany but
>> anything
> with a copyright date
>> after about 1988 was made in USA (North Carolina). And of course some
>> Polygram
> titles were licensed
>> to the BMG/RCA classical music club and manufactured for those
>> customers in
> Indiana.
>>
> Wasn't Sony the "ur-source" of Compact Disc technology? IIRC, Philips
> gave the world cassette tape, but NOT CD...?
>
CD was a joint project of Sony and Philips.
Regards
--
Don Cox
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