Sony CD Player ad

An advert for Sony's first CD player starring a robotic John Cleese.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Sony
• CD
• player
• cleese
• john webster
• BMP
• Ad
• advertising
• advertisement

[VViewer92]

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

[TheBlurayboy]

Long life to Sony!

[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

[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Of course the CD is obsolete, it was replaced by the SACD.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.

[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.

[SlimeTron5000]

That does not mean I do not have CDs.