The compact disc led to subsequent formats such as the DVD and Blu-ray Disc, each of which stored movies, video games and music on ever-more data-rich discs. Eight years after the CD's arrival ...

remembered the compact disc format "seemed like a leap into the future." Other memories of his: "Going into Tower Records to buy a single CD and coming out with five which I very much could not ...

Sony in Japan and Philips in Eindhoven, Netherlands, had invented the compact-disc hardware ... radio stations and even CD-friendly stars such as Stevie Wonder. The disc kicked in by the late ...

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany ... remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads. The CD was jointly developed ...

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...

Time, technology and formats have to move on, and streaming, while not perfect, is clearly a better proposition than compact disc for most people in most ways. But, given a good enough CD player and a ...

A developer has dusted off an ancient software project for burning visual artwork onto the surface of a standard Compact Disc ...

The build starts by scavenging the movement out of a cheap plastic clock. A CD is then glued to the front of the movement to serve as a reflective backing plate. For numerals, the clock uses F3 ...

CDs are inexpensive, small and lightweight. This makes them easy to store, carry around and mail. They're also user-friendly. Today, many different kinds of audio-visual data are stored and sold ...

Ruark used to have several CD players in its range, but now it’s reduced that down to one, the R3S DAB (even the flagship R410 and R810 systems don’t have space for compact discs). That’s OK, because ...

The introduction of the Compact Disc in the 1980s brought many claimed ... Though there are legacy players that offer more, the CD-C603 does have a rather nifty feature called Play X Change ...