Random music news for Thursday, September 21, 2023
I wonder how much it took for Robert Niro to appear in these ads? Meanwhile, music news for September 21, 2023, remains free. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Have you seen/heard the
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Sony
Fun consumer electronics history: Why did Beta lose to VHS?
My family’s first VCR was a Beta machine. It took my dad years to get over choosing wrong. But Sony’s Beta seemed to be the way to go. I mean it debuted in
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Ongoing History Daily: Who invented headphones, part 3
From the late 50s through to the late 70s, headphones were big, bulky, heavy things. The prevailing design theory was that for the user to get maximum fidelity out of them, the had
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We may be on the verge of the biggest music catalogue sale EVER!
With about a dozen companies spending billions of dollars buying up the catalogues of artists (here’s my running list), it’s become a sport to predict which artist will be the next to sell.
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Random music news for Friday, January 13, 2023
Need a head transplant? Good news! And there’s more good news (I think) with music news for January 13, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Watching a watermelon decompose at high-speed is
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Random music news for Friday, January 6, 2023
I’ve been thinking about getting a bird feeder for the backyard. Maybe this one? Might be as entertaining as music news for January 6, 2023. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Bowling trick
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Amazon Music wants to improve the listening experience in the car
CES, the world’s biggest consumer electronics show in the world, has taken over Las Vegas again. New TVs seem to be the big deal (check out what Samsung has unveiled) along with developments
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40 years ago today–October 1, 1982–the first CD went on sale. Here’s an oral history of how it happened.
The introduction of the compact disc brought the music industry out of a terrible post-disco recession but also created a new wave of prosperity that lasted for the rest of the century. But
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Here’s a 40th birthday salute to the compact disc
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] After more than a decade of work, building on an idea first posited in 1931 for a device known as the “optophone,” Sony of
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Forty years ago this week, the first commercial-produced CD was made
It was on August 17, 1982, when the first commercially-available compact disc rolled out of the Philips factory in Germany. According to some records, the very first title produced for stores was The
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Random music news for Monday, July 4, 2022
THIS JUST IN: Video from the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to take Trump the Capitol on January 6. (via Oreo) Then we’ll move on to music news for July 4.
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