When Was the First CD Burner Created?

Video Transcript

"Hi it's Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here talking about when the first CD burner was created. Well a CD burner is sort of a colloquial name for a CD recorder, it's official term, and the first one was available believe it or not as early as 1988. Now it's only if you had a few bucks. The first one was reported to be about 20,000 dollars but if you got all the computers, the software to actually implement it and do it, you were looking about paying just under 100,000 big ones and the unit weighing in at about 600 pounds, yeah that's not something you stick in the back of your trunk. So it took a while for the prices to come down on that but that was the first time CD recorders or burners were available like that. Now what it does, it uses an optical disc in order, a recordable CD disc in order to make it happen. It makes the polymer inside of it, there's a metallic coating and it basically puts in or writes in a digital signal very much like a record player does. Now a record player actually makes grooves into the vinyl to create the actual sounds, here the laser is pushing up or down to create either an on and off command which is the sole, the basis of binary or all digital communications or all digital period, whether it be communicating or talking back and forth to computers. In sense what was created was an incredibly popular way, before you could record to tapes but now you had a digital, an inexpensive way after it came out, you can get one now for about anywhere between 100 and 300 dollars and they only weigh a couple of pounds. I myself the first foray into digital recording was MD or MiniDiscs which I predicted would take off like a banshee, I was wrong. And back then the MDs actually were the exact same price of, a little bit of trivia, the exact same price as a new release album, about 15.99 because Sony just figured you'd rip it off. The first ones were, the first CD, recordable CDs were expensive also but now you can get them down to pennies. So if you're curious about the first time, go back in your time machine to 1988 and you could buy one for only 100,000 dollars or save up some pennies kicking around and buy one used on eBay for 50 bucks. I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying stream you later."