Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

The compact disc isn’t dead, young listeners are rediscovering the format and driving demand at local record stores.

To most people, it's a foregone conclusion that the day of the compact disc has passed, with the music format having gone the way of the 8-track tape - to the great compost pile in the sky, replaced ...

Former Sony Corporation president Norio Ohga, the man widely attributed for pushing Sony into a new generation that led to the standardization of the Compact Disc format, passed away on Saturday from ...

With so much in doubt about the future of the CD it's easy to overlook that on Friday the Compact Disc format will turn 25. In Germany the world's first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram – the ...

Incredibly slim and circular in shape, a CD is roughly the size of a 2D bagel. The shiny, touchable technology may appeal to younger listeners who like their gadgets to be flashy and eye-catching.

The 3 best CD Players for your retro revival –and simply great-sounding music ...

Tony Smith of The Register reports: Sony failed to tune the masses into its better-than-Compact-Disc format, Super Audio CD, so it's having another go, this time with technology derived from Blu-ray ...

The following story ran in the first-ever issue of SPIN in May 1985. Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, ...