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Article: Compact discs now the hottest sound in town. (includes article on Consumer Electronics Show)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 17, 1985
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Home computers are in the doldrums, telephone makers are still in the throes of a shakeout and color-television sales are stagnant. Amid this wreckage, the consumer-electronics industry and gadget lovers have a new darling: The compact disc.
using digital technology to create sound far superior to that of traditional phonograph records, the compact disc, or CD, is rejuvenating the audio business and producing a generation of born-again music lovers.
By any yardstick, CD's were the buzzword at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago during early June. "Sales are phenomenal," exclaims Marc Finer of Sony, which co-developed the technology with Philips of ...