Sony CD Player ad

[LeeJTurnock]

Racket? That's MOZART!

[JJMCB26]

Most likely to be John Cleese in the far distant future as his preserved brain and moustache have been transplanted onto a robot which walks like Hitler. Haha!!!

[23chilled]

The cdp-101 was a nice machine in 1982. I have a 1983 NAD 5200 which was the first of the future of cd players in it's time. A forgotten machine now. Cyrus thought they re made the cd player a few years back saying it was the new wave of disc players. To be honest my out dated machine sounds just as good. The old days of tech I'm sorry to say were far better than tech today.

[Megadeth6633]

lol I can see the string that pulls it through the room

[dickcheney6]

Let's think about it-a CD that is played regularly usually lasts around 8 to 12 years (barring any mishaps or using it as a frisbee) . For an MP3 file to remain playable for that long your computer would have to NEVER EVER EVER crash while moving music folders around or something. If it's a mirrored drive array, that would only protect against actual drive failures-if your computer crashed or encountered an error while writing to both drives, it won't help.

[dickcheney6]

Another issue is that on the off chance that a music file that you downloaded ever develops a single missing bit (like if your computer accidentally erases it or maybe a "bad sector" appeared) at least on my MP3 walkman it would instantly freeze and I couldn't even fast-forward past the broken bit- I'd have to reboot it. And if it's a paid-for download the only way to make it work again is to re-purchase it. I should not have to re-purchase songs over something that is NON PREVENTABLE!!!!!!!!!

[dickcheney6]

I still use CDs all the time! I did do MP3s for a little while (ripping from CDs or downloading) until I discovered that my media manager thing, or my mp3 player, could not handle even the teeniest tiniest itty bitty "hiccup" in the song. I could play a CD that I'd had for a few years in some off brand el-cheapo CD player and it would play perfectly, and that same CD would send my computer or MP3 walkman to the showers!

[JMMoosey]

I wish they kept making CD Players that looked that nice and still had the Red Sony Logo on it. Too bad they make CD players anymore that look like cheap shit.

[JJ9715]

Is the music cd obsolete? I notice people aren't using discmans that much anymore.

[SlimeTron5000]

That does not mean I do not have CDs.

[truefaith00]

Of course the CD is obsolete, it was replaced by the SACD. Where have you been all these years?

I'm being sarcastic. But in all fairness, SACD could have been huge.

[nickhirst999]

Great! I've often quoted this ad for the vinyl fans but remembered the real John Cleese appearing in it rather than the robot. Oh well it was a long time ago!

[MarioStarN]

cool. and weird.

[albertusj]

Creepy

[KellyXSony]

I love this ad!

[TheBlurayboy]

Long life to Sony!

[VViewer92]

that robot had metal hands. wouldn't it have scratched the CD?

[nakile]

You know, I don't think reality really applies to this video...

[yoshi2560]

thats what i thought lol

[almadaboysdoitbetter]

vai pa cona da tua mae

[aapenjong]

if you look well than you see pieces of rubber at the ends. that would prevent that from happening. LOL

[PacificStereo]

Wow, what a great clip, and an outstanding encode. Great job. Wish they had run those ads in the States!

I am one of the few remaining humans on the planet who can actually fix and align a CDP-101. I still have original parts (including brand-new optics!), too.

Wish I still had my 101. It sounded awful, but it sure was cool! Used to run it in the car on the passenger seat (on an inverter), before the CDX-5/CDX-R7 series of car players came out.

What memories. Thanks for this!

[pauleyh]

i seen one of these cd players still brand new in the box. and it was about as clean as the one your watching now? any suggesitons people?

[allboutk]

look after it, its a piece of history

[Pizzscn]

I saw a record player at Balks not too long ago that could read a record and record it to a Compact Disk

[USA4Eva1776]

The advert would probably date from late 1982 or early 1983 since the CDP-101 was introduced in October of 1982. Although it could be later as I'm not sure when the CDP-101 was released on the UK market.

[JJ9715]

Anyone know what year this commercial is from? My guess is 1984, but not sure.

[digamejh]

Is that supposed to be John Clease?

Couldn't be...

[thecheesepriest]

Yep, that is John Cleese's voice put to a robotic Cleese with the robotic funny walk simulated from Fawlty Towers "The Germans". Mike S.

[Snakeyx]

i think they picked the silly walk from monty python's sketch "ministry of silly walks" rather than that walk from faulty towers....

[shystylzyt]

That's Mozart's symphony no. 40 in G minor (Köchel catalogue number 550).

[Cool2BCeltic]

Clever one!

[AVoodooSmile]

Actually, that is in fact Mozart's 40th symphony.

-Taidgh