1. 1987
Technological progression in audio and video recordings, record-breaking pop acts, and high profiles for heavy metal and new age music highlighted 1987. Business boomed as sales of compact disk (CD) players rose rapidly and record companies issued many new albums and reissued old albums on CD. New technology included CD video, that blends video and high-quality digital audio, and super-VHS video, which gets very good video quality thanks to high-speed playing as well as high-speed recording. Amending an earlier ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in November 1987 said that st...
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