It would join with Philips to refine the standard and commit to creating its own line of CD players. Over the course of the next year, Philips and Sony hammered out the details of their plan.

Philips first CD player cost more than £1,000 in today's money A week later Philips travelled to Japan after the Japanese Ministry of Industry and Technology (MITI) had decided to convene a conference ...

If you’re looking for something smaller, we also like this Philips CD Cassette player boombox that can also play tapes and connect via USB. This modern-retro machine can get loud – it has two ...

This list celebrates the best disc spinners we've had the pleasure of reviewing over the past four decades... Most early CD players adopted Sony's 16-bit standard, but Philips stuck with its 14-bit ...

Philips ws a familiar household name for its TV sets, cassettes and Cd players, but it could not withstand competition from low-cost Korean manufacturers like Samsung and LG Electronics ...

At 7.6 ounces and 1.1 by 3.5 by 4.7 inches (HWD), the Philips eXp401 CD/MP3 player is the lightest and most compact of the four CD/MP3 players we tested. It's small because the eXp401 plays 3-inch ...

The first players were based around the drawer-loading Sony CDP-101 technology, and soon the top-loading wedge-fronted Philips CD100 (above). And by the time the format was officially rolled out ...

If you look on the back of a CD player with a digital output socket, you may find the letters "SPDIF" alongside it. These stand for Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format. The real credit for the ...