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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dire Straits in 1985 - Deborah Feingold/Getty Forty years ago this week, the British rock band Dire Straits released their fifth ...
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CD sales are booming again, but only half of buyers actually have a compact disc player to listen on
CDs are now a collectable among younger generations. Sales are booming new data shows, but who's actually listening to them?
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 ...
Yamaha prepares for a new dawn of the Compact Disc, with a CD multi-changer named the CD-C603 The CD-C603 can play MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV or FLAC files stored on a USB thumbdrive, as well as music on ...
The early 2000s were the halcyon days of physical media. While not as svelte as MP3 players became, why are those early 2000s machines smaller than all the new models popping up amidst the retro audio ...
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