[net.audio] THE ANSWER re: CD's make in USA

gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) (10/03/84)

According to the Oct 3 WSJ, as definitive a
source as I'm likely to find, 

"A joint venture of CBS Inc. and Sony last week opened the first
compact disk custom-pressing plant in the U.S.  The plant's initial
capacity will be 300,000 disks a month but will double as demand requires."

These guys do their homework much better then most sources, so I consider
this highly reliable. 

Other quotes:

"More tha 1200 compact disk titles are available, up from 650 last
year; in 1985 more than 2000 will be on the market, says
Emiel Petrone, head of cmpact disk marketing for Polygram."

"In august, 24% of our volume was compact disks", says Arthur SHulman,
the store's [Laury's Discount Records/Chicago] director.  "Eighteen months
ago, the business didn't exist."

"Sony Corp. yesterday introduced the first portable compact disk player -
similar in concept to Sony's popular Walkman tape player - complete with
headphones and battery pack.  The player, which will retail for about $300,
measures 5 by 5 1/4 inches and will  be in stores next month.  Sony is also
preparing to ship car-stereo versions of the disk players."