Compact discs are creating a boom for the struggling music industry by offering music lovers stereo recordings free of snaps, crackles and pops. The technology, relatively unknown three years ago, has ...

World’s first CD manufactured at Philips factory near Hanover, Germany, on August 17, 1982 Philips and Sony co-developed CD – over 200 billion CDs sold in last 25 years CD ushered in shift from ...