Since we last looked into the ongoing resurrection of the classic digital disc, even more CD playing devices have caught our eye. Here’s an update featuring the latest in standalones and separates, ...

Between audio cassettes and the MP3, the compact disk was the most popular way to listen to music in parts of the 1980s and 1990s, and every CD needed a CD player! On October 1st, 1982 the first ever ...

Parasound teams with Holm Acoustics to deliver a radically different approach to extracting the best possible sound from a Compact Disc Parasound introduced the Halo CD 1, which uses a new CD playback ...

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a novel method of detecting molecules with a conventional compact disk player that provides scientists with an inexpensive way to ...

808 released on anniversary of Meridian’s first CD player Huntingdon, UK, August 2004–Meridian Audio Ltd, the leading UK-based manufacturer of high-end audio, video and home theatre systems and ...

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 ...

Seeburg Phonograph Corp. and Sony Corp. of America have entered an agreement for production of the first jukebox to use compact disk technology. Vintage Chicago Tribune: American Airlines Flight 191 ...

It has been one of the swiftest revolutions in recorded history. Almost everyone, it seems, has joined the rebels, and only a stalwart few now cling to the crumbling old regime. Long live the CD, the ...

Having spent last week on vacation sans Internet, I had to wait until today to extend a slightly belated happy 25th birthday to a gadget that forever changed the way we entertain ourselves. On Aug. 17 ...

Sony is releasing two new Blu-ray disk player models (BDP-S5100, BDP-S1100) on July 27. Their upper surfaces have faceted shapes, which changes the look of the body depending on light reflection. By ...