Sony used this optical disc as a template, and four years later released the very first commercial compact disc player. The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte. Early adopters had to ...

It was, I was led to believe, only the second CD player to have been sold in the capital city. May 1983 was less than eight months after the Sony CDP-101 CD player had been launched in Japan. That was ...

After years of research and an intense period of collaboration with Philips, Sony shipped the world's first CD player, the CDP-101. Music — and how we listen to it — would never be the same.