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 ...

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.

It seems like only two years ago the first audio CD-Recorders appeared on the market, radiating in technological wizardry but, like most new products, teetering on the clunky side of functional, too ...

I use a lot of technical terms when I write my columns. That comes with the territory. ButI sometimes forget that not everyone understands what every one of these terms mean. So, my first questions ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

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 ...