aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote: Woah... I thought CD's were invented in 1982? I remember it easily as thats the year my younger brother was born. Or was that the year they first came to the UK/Europe?? Regards, Andrew D. Burton -------------------------------------------- CDs were being developed for more than a decade before they became commercial products. When I worked at Philips in the Optical Storage Group, I made several trips to the Philips labs in Eindhoven. There, Philips has displays of many of the original CD's and players, a few still working. It also gave me a chance to talk to some of the original engineers, at least the few who haven't retired by now. Going commercial with the new technology was a hell of a battle for Philips and later Sony. It was not instantly embraced. Billy