The electronics company Sony has announced the death of the man credited with developing the compact disc, Norio Ohga.

索尼电子公司日前宣布，发明激光唱片的大贺典雄去世。

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And the electronics company Sony has announced the death of the man credited with developing the compact disc, Norio Ohga.

索尼电子公司日前宣布，发明激光唱片的大贺典雄(Norio Ohga)去世。

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But Ohga and others believed that the excellent sound quality of the CD would make it popular.

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Sony Corporation official Norio Ohga helped to develop the compact disc in the late nineteen seventies.

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As a young man, Ohga reportedly owned a tape recorder that did not work well.

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"The economy is on the verge of collapsing, " said Sony chairman Ohga Norio.

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Ohga even compared Hashimoto to Herbert Hoover, the American president who helped bring his country and the world into the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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