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 ...

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 ...

TORONTO – It was just over 29 years ago that the compact disc was first made widely available to the public, a much-hyped new format that – we were told – was certain to sound vinyl’s death knell with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting a better-quality CD experience without having to upgrade your CD player sounds delightful, doesn't it? Sony's new Blu-spec CD format promises just that, employing the same technology used to ...

A coalition of label marketers worked with MTV, radio stations and music stars to sell skeptical executives on the format — and delivered a boom that lasted for nearly 20 years. By Steve Knopper On ...

In 2021, CD sales increased for the first time in 17 years. That’s mostly because of Adele, whose new album sold 898,000 of those shiny little discs. The last time CDs were this hot, Usher, Ashlee ...

The shiny compact disc, once as essential to every living-room music system as a copy of Michael Jackson's Thriller album, is quickly going the way of the eight-track and cassette tape. The rise of ...