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Submitted by Anushree Goswami, on June 19, 2020

CD: Compact Disc

CD is an abbreviation of "Compact Disc".

It is a digital optical disc originally developed to store the audio of recordings in the format of a data file used as a portable storage medium. It was co-invented by Philips and Sony and launched in the market in 1982. Subsequently, it was adapted as a data storage medium in the format of CD-ROM. Afterward; various other formats were also launched at that time which comprises,

Record-once audio and data format(CD-R)
Re-writable media format (CD-RW)
Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD), for the high-resolution read-only optical audio disc format
CD-MIDI format
Video Compact Disc format (VCD)
Super Video Compact Disc format(SVCD)
Photo CD format
Picture CD format
Compact Disc-Interactive format (CD-i)
Enhanced Music CD format
Vinyl Disc format

As of 2007, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs continued to exist as broadly used digital disc technology in the industry of personal computers. The annual worldwide sales 2004, of CD-DA, CD-ROM, and CD-R achieved about 30 billion discs sale, which has made CD-DA and its extensions far more successful.

History

In the late 1960s, the first digital disc was invented by the American physicist James T.Russell, the first format to record audio and other digital information on an optical transparent foil.
In 1979, Sony and Philips organized and arranged a joint task force of engineers to co-develop and co-design an original digital audio disc format.
In the year 1980, after a year of conducting experiments, tests, and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was issued, printed, and made available.
In 1982, Digital audio compact disc was launched in the market and its media players were turned out to be enormously well-accepted by the public.

Awards and Recognition

The various awards and recognition were acknowledged by Sony and Philip from specialized certified organizations for the co-development of the digital compact disc.
Some of these awards comprise,

In 1998, Sony and Philips awarded "Technical Grammy Award".
In 2009, Philips awarded the "IEEE Milestone Award", for his contribution to the co-development of the digital compact disc.