CD-DA

Developed by Royal Philips and Sony Corporation as defined in the "System Description Compact Disc Digital Audio" ('Red Book') first published in 1981, with the first CD-DA players introduced in 1982. The IEC later published the specifications in the international standard IEC 908 in September 1987 (now called IEC 60908), amended in September 1992, with a Corrigendum in March 1993 (replacing a single figure), and finally updating to a second edition in February 1999.