The CD Player, 1980.

Why did they age him? I don’t understand.

Wait a minute. This was 1980? That seems about 3 years ahead of schedule.

I miss the sound of records with the headphones that went over your entire ear. You don't get that with digital recordings and ear buds.

The Phillips CD303 is from 1984.

Remember the ruckus over having to re buy all our records as CDs? AAD then DDD? The first CD I bought (in 1987)

But but but… where’s his Members Only jacket?! 😂😂

Woah! I had no idea CDs came before I was born!

CD's provided Hi-Fi for "generations to come." About two generations, to be precise.

I saw my first CD player in 1985 and I was blown away. Still remember that car drive with my buddy who has just dropped $400 on a portable model. Five years later, they were practically giving them away at Walmart. 6-disc changers were commonplace.

The mustache suits you well.

Mike Read doing his ‘old man voice’ sounded like Jermaine Clement doing his posh voiceover character 😂😂

“That commercial captures a profound cultural and psychological shift. The transition from the warm, tactile, and inherently imperfect analog groove to the cold, sterile perfection of the digital bitstream felt less like a simple upgrade and more like a fundamental breach in our relationship with sound. For those attuned to the subtleties of signal paths and physical metaphysics, that "existential crisis" makes complete sense. Here is how that technological pivot altered the landscape: The Erasure of the Somatic Trace: Analog media like vinyl records carry physical evidence of time and touch—dust motes, hairline scratches, stylus wear, and ambient warmth. Digital audio traded that living artifact for an invisible, mathematically absolute grid, converting the organic wave into a sanitized sequence of numbers. The Loss of Ritual: Playing a record required physical engagement—the drop of the needle, the static snap, the spinning rotation, and the physical liner notes. The CD introduced laser-guided, frictionless efficiency, stripping away the ritual and replacing physical labor with clinical convenience. The Sanitization of Sound: Marketing campaigns framed the analog medium's imperfections as "dirty" or "noisy" while praising digital as "correct." In doing so, industry rhetoric pathologized the natural warmth of the physical world in favor of algorithmic sterility.” @GeminiApp 🤖

I bought the Sony CDP-101 for $999 at FedCo in LA, March-ish 1983. So cool.

Nice Hat!

Got my first one in 85. Alpine home CD player. Felt like a king. 🤪

I gave away all my CDs. Now I’m back to vinyl-only and happy.

It’s the fit for me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

now they're played back by clouds..

The music is from 1984 , on a 1980 commercial , it's a timetravel cd player

But at what cost… sacrifice the warmth for the next new shiny object? Idk, it just seems like we’re always ok with all these compromises.

Philips was the inventor of the compact cassette and the cd player... It's no longer in audio.

sign me up

The 30 year old wearing an old person wig, mustache, and brows + the exaggerated British highbrow accent impressed me the most.

@Ableton @skrillex 😱

Good

If you took that 1985 £350, waited until 2026, then converted it into USD, it would work out to about $1,800.