First (?) Sega VR footage

what was on that first CD? Also was there actually any CD players back then.

Yakumo

 

Found out that the first CD to be produced for the public was indeed Abba. The album was The Visitors.

Yakumo

 

The first CD single was brothers in arms by dire straits, i know this as it was a question on Going Live that the guy who played Todd Landers answered, stuck with me ever since.

 

Incorrect. Go back and read the previous page and someone says "Wonder if any of these made it into the hands of collectors?". Another poster then responds "Quite a bunch of them actually". That's a pretty direct claim that they are actually in the hands of collectors. I want proof of that claim. That's all I asked for.

 

I think the amount of releases over at Hidden Palace more than vouches for DRX's credibility.

 

Interesting tidbit: The inventor of the CD never received any royalties for his creation. His company did, though. A lot.

 

Sorry mate but it wasn't. That CD came out in 1985. It was indeed the first CD to sell over 1 million copies but by far not the first CD to be produced. That was deffinatly ABBA's Vision album. Check out the BBC web archives or the Philips CD history page.

Yakumo

 

Yeah deffo first CD single, sure there mustve been plenty of albums before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_single

Todd Landers would never lie, apart from to women.

 

I hate quoting wikipedia:

"The compact disc is a successful spin-off of the much less successful Laserdisc technology. In 1979, Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. The task force, led by prominent members Kees Schouhamer Immink and Toshitada Doi (土井利忠), progressed the research into laser technology and optical discs that had been started by Philips in 1977.[2]"

I don't know how much sony and philips put into it. Laser disc was big and kinda analogue, CD was small and digital. I'm sure they wouldn't share the royalties just to have sony along for the ride.


This is quite interesting:
http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immink/pdf/cdstoryoriginal.pdf

 

Don't know why but reading that made me think of the A-Team, just change "Sony and Philips Consumer Electronics" with "The A-Team" :lol:

 

Wow... I just had a daydream about Mr. T doing VR and just ripping the controller and headset out... scary

 

So you were the guy buying crack behind the 7-11

 

That was last week

 

I definitely have protos of the games, I sold one awhile ago, but still have the others that were going to come out.

 

so do you own one or others here in this place?

 

I've bought from him Iron Hammer, and it has been played during our show (VGH - Monza - Italy). There's even a youtube video Monokoma (from unseen64) made during that day. But we had some problems with a cable...
Here's the video:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=uQG0tZqaKUg

Sorry for the stupid Italian comments.