Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

I formatted a CD-RW disc in the UDF format with InCD to work as a giant floppy so I could backup stuff on it for when I re-formatted. It worked at first, and I got most of my stuff off of it, but now ...

Hey!<BR><BR>I have a couple of old "CD Video" discs and was wondering if there was a software player out there for them. I have a CD-RW and a DVD+\- burner if that matters.<BR><BR>And yes, I'm talking ...

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...

In 1982, when the BBC’s prime-time technology show – Tomorrow’s World – did a segment on a new musical format called the “Compact Disc” the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...