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The Phonautogram is the earliest known device for recording sound. More info HERE
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The Ediphone, or phonograph cylinder, is the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. One of the earliest surviving recordings recorded on an Ediphone: HERE
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Magnetic Wire Recording is an analog type of audio stroage in which a magnetic recording is made on a thin stell or stainless steel wire. The wire is pulled rapidly across a recording head which magnetizes each point along the wire in accordance with the intensity and polarity of the electrical audio signal.
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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording is a form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette. More info HERE
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Vinyl Records are an anlog sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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The RCA tape cartridge is a magnetic tape format that was designed to offer stereo quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape recording quality in a convenient format for the consumer market.
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The 4-track featured a magnetic tape sound recording cartridge technology that could be played in in-car tape players called Autostereos.
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8-tracks were magnetic tape sound recording technology but was taken over by the compact cassette.
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Compact cassettes featured magnetic tape for recording audio and playback. Cassettes could be purchased with prerecorded audio or could be purchased as blank cassettes for personal recording.
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Mini-cassettes were data storage devices, sold blank for recording your own audio.
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Microcassettes were created to be smaller than the compact cassette. More info HERE
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Quadraphonic sound was similar to modern surround sound. It employed the use of four channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of the listening space.
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LaserDisc is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium.
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Click HERE to watch the CD be introduced to the world.
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Watch this commercial for the MiniDisc.
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Introduced to the market to succeed the popular compact cassette.
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Watch a commercial for DVD here
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Intended to be a successor for Compact Disc, the super audio CD did not really take off. Research from 2007 suggests that there is not significant audio quality difference between CDs and the Super Audio CDs.
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Project was abandoned for the Blu-ray.
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Capable of storing high-definition video resolution and playing up to 60 frames per second, Blu-ray was designed to supersede the DVD.
