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 ...

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 ...

The CD-ROM has nearly replaced the floppy disc for the mundane, but essential task of loading software on a computer. While the floppy drive has been all but relegated to the dustbin, the CD-ROM has ...

There are many of you reading this who still have a lot of love for CDs. We certainly do. If you don't find streaming to be sonically satisfying and haven't been swept up by the vinyl revival, then ...

It sounds heavenly. Get a recordable or rewritable compact-disc drive for your PC, and you’ll never have to worry about storage capacity again. Plus you’ll be able to make your own music and data CDs.

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

As the file-swapping freedom fighters at Napster assert their right to download a low-fi copy of “I Fought the Law,” hundreds of thousands of songs are being recorded as virtual CD duplicates in homes ...