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 ...

Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...

Thirty-five years after the format was introduced as one of the greatest audio advancements since the birth of recorded music — and unwittingly unleashed digitized music into the wild — the once ...

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 ...

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.

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

An earlier Compact Disc format for full-motion video. Introduced in 1993 and developed by Panasonic, Philips, Sony and JVC, a Video CD (VCD) held 74 minutes of VHS-quality video and CD-quality sound ...

The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format will finally have its big debut at Consumer Electronics Show 2016 which will kick off in Las Vegas during first days of the new year. In the early 70s and ...