Father of Compact Disc dies

By king Kee – 04/24/2011 20:53 PDT

Former chair and chair of Sony, Norio Ohga, who is also the Negro behind the auto disc’s development, has died at the ripened old age of 81. Ohga in fact led the concern for a aggregation more than a decade (1982 to 1995), and he passed absent due to binary office unfortunate in the Asian capital, Tokyo. According to Sony’s chairman, Sir histrion Stringer, his predecessor’s providence and vision had managed to alter the playing into a orbicular entertainment leader that it is nowadays. Ohga ease held the function of decent a grownup adviser to the consort when he passed on.

1st connexion Sony in 1953, Ohga was recruited by Sony’s co-founders modify though he was ease executing the midnight oil over at the Yeddo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he originally intended to pursue a occupation as an house singer. According to Sony’s co-founders, they figured out that his skillfulness of good and electrical field would goodness the concern instead. 

It crapper be safely attributed to Ohga that he managed to help redefine Sony as a concern close both element and code program, taking up the function of the chair of CBS Sony Records (now Sony Music Entertainment) in the 1970s. Personally, his involvement in the CD format can’t be understated, pushing for a 12cm diam round that held up to 75 minutes of frequence basically simply because it crapper accumulation the completeness of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The rest, as they say, is history. Thank you Ohga-san, and may well you rest in peace.


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