Music and Sound Company

Music and Sound Company (also known as MSC) is an American Multinational Conglomerate with headquarters in Sunnyvale-Silicon Valley. It’s known for being with Karlheinz Brandenburg the creators of the MP3 Format, and because of their incredible speakers and for being owners of the famous program DivX, they have also a record publisher called MSC Records. They have a long rivalry with RCA.

The start
The Music Company and the Sound Company roots go back to 1934 and 1928, when Robert Clark Sr. founded The Sound Company in Philadelphia, the company makes phonographs and turntables, and then in 1934 his son Robert Clark Jr. creates the Music Company, that was a record publisher that worked with famous artists, during the 50s era the two company’s had talks to merge because there founders were family and they wanted to merge for so long time, but the US Department of Justice declined the merger, but in the Night of August 16th, 1978 at 9:34 PM, Robert Clark Sr. died at the age of 84 because of Cancer, after this his son decided it was time to merge the two company’s and after a year, on October 11th, 1979 the two companies merged and founded The Music, Radio and Sound Company of America Inc.

After the merge
The Music, Radio and Sound Company of America started as a big news for the Music world, because now some company could battle with RCA who at the time, was one of the biggest tech companies in the world, in 1983, the company started to launch CD players after the launch of that format in North America, then the company started to not just be a Music tech company but now wanted to be in more sectors of the Tech Area but didn’t now what and when to start, but after the launch of DVD format in the US at the year 1997, MSC decided to start to make DVD/CD players.

MP3 Players
When the MP3 Players era started in 1998 with the MPMan F15, MSC saw it as a opportunity because well, they invented the MP3 Format, and so in the 2000 started the building of the first MP3 Player by MSC, and in 2004 it was completed. And so the MSC DM-PF256 was born. The MP3 Player was well received and was compared decently versus the IPod, on 2006 it was revealed that a second MP3 player by MSC was in development since August 2005, at the very Christmas of 2007 the MSC DM-TS512 was launched, it had more good reviews than the last one and it was compared more decently versus the IPod, because it was one of the first MP3 Players to be Touch Screen and have MP4 and AVI support. after that MSC released updated versions of the two of them, until in fall of 2009 they released the third and last MP3 player by MSC, the MSC DM-RE256. This one received mixed reviews, because of how simple it was and that it only supported MP3 and WMA. After that MSC will never launch a MP3 player ever again. But will still receive support and being produced by MSC, that will end in 2012 when they ended producing the first MP3 Player by MSC and the updated versions of the same one, in 2015 they announced that the DM-TS513 and the two updates that it released will not be produced anymore, and finally in 2022 the last MP3 player by MSC will not be produced anymore marking the end of the MSC MP3 players.

Now
After the launch of the MSC DM-RE256 in 2009, MSC started to focus in making CD, DVD players and now, Speakers! In fall of 2010 the first MSC Speaker was launched to the market, the MSC SP-1G, this speaker was well received in the market, being compared against Harman-Kardon speakers, like JBL and because this was made by themselves without any help. After that MSC has launched 11 more generations, in May 2011 they bought the company behind DivX, this wasn’t expected to happen because it was speculated that the format will just die out but it was saved by MSC. Now with that name, nobody wasn’t expecting to now be a literal RCA 2.0, that by this time, RCA was dead. And so it continued until 2017 when the world was surprised by the launch of a new memory card: The MicroFlash Card (shortened as MFC), in collaboration with SanDisk, that will start the production of the memory card from April 21st, 2018, it will have some storage like: 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1 TB, although by today not a single thing supports by default, a lot of accessory’s like dongles, etc. have already adopted the card, which makes the use (in 2021) of the card by 5.3 Million people, although not that popular, MSC and SanDisk have been working together to bring by default this format to PC, phones, tablets, etc.