Dozens of types of sound recordings were born and died in just one generation. How much do you remember offhand?

Just think: for some half a century, we have witnessed the birth, frenzied popularity and slow oblivion of dozens of music recording standards. Some have even been forgotten, let's refresh our memory a little ...





At the beginning of the 70s, the century of gramophone recording was already over, but many had records and even gramophones in working order in a huge number. It's a sin, a lot of records with friends were transferred to "flying saucers".





It was the "golden age" of vinyl records. And for every taste and wallet.





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1982  Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA),  -. Philips Sony .





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, Philips Matsushita,  Digital Compact Cassette (DCC).





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VHS . 6 , Hi-Fi . S-VHS,  ADAT,  8





MP3 CD . CD .





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An interesting attempt to give a second life to CDs was the creation of the DataPlay format  . Rewritable disc with a diameter of only 32 mm. contained 500 mb of information.





Alas, the success of flash cards left the format no chance.





Advances in memory cards have turned phones and smartphones into a music center with a virtually unlimited music library.





We have considered only the most famous standards, but how many other developments ended in small-scale production?





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