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This Video From 1982 Shows How Wrong People Were About CDs

“It will make all conventional disc and cassette systems obsolete.”

Sometimes 25 years of hindsight can be incredibly satisfying. Case in point: the unquestioning faith people once had in the compact disc. In 1982 the format was heralded as “the ultimate in recorded sound” by a segment on ABC Science Australia. At the time it was thought that it would make both vinyl and cassette systems obsolete due to the new “dust-proof, scratch-proof, digitally-recorded, laser-read” plastic revolution. With the vinyl market exploding and tapes making a resurgence while disc rot is currently threatening all CD archives, we know what side of history we’d rather be on.

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