<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc" id="mwAU0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Compact disc">Compact discs</a> and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets.<sup about="#mwt144" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-27"}}' id="cite_ref-27" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-27" id="mwAU4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 27;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAU8">[27]</span></a></sup> They had previously been available only in Japan.<sup about="#mwt148" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-28"}}' id="cite_ref-28" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-28" id="mwAVA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 28;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAVE">[28]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-27"><cite about="#mwt141" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFTroyCannato2009">Troy, Gil; Cannato, Vincent J. (2009-10-22). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=73BMCAAAQBAJ&amp;dq=compact+discs+%22march+2%2C+1983%22&amp;pg=PT13" id="mwB9s" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB9w">Living in the Eighties</i></a>. Oxford University Press. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB90" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB94" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-19-029323-9" id="mwB98" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-029323-9"><bdi id="mwB-A">978-0-19-029323-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt141" class="Z3988" id="mwB-E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Living+in+the+Eighties&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2009-10-22&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-19-029323-9&amp;rft.aulast=Troy&amp;rft.aufirst=Gil&amp;rft.au=Cannato%2C+Vincent+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D73BMCAAAQBAJ%26dq%3Dcompact%2Bdiscs%2B%2522march%2B2%252C%2B1983%2522%26pg%3DPT13&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+2"></span></span>