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 ...

With so much in doubt about the future of the CD it's easy to overlook that on Friday the Compact Disc format will turn 25. In Germany the world's first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram – the ...

It was Aug. 17, 1982, and row upon row of palm-sized plates with a rainbow sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. By The Associated Press EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — It was Aug.

In the past year, sales of DVD players have declined by 15 percent. Nov. 5, 2007 — -- After the compact disc ushered in the first digital music revolution, there were questions about whether the ...

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 ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

The first commercial compact disc was released on Oct. 1, 1982 in Japan, heralding a quantum shift in the way fans would consume music for the next two decades – and setting off a fresh torrent of ...

Johannesburg - What was the first CD you ever bought? The first compact disc (CD) I ever saved up for was Lil’ Bow Wow’s Beware of Dog. I recall so much about that experience. Trying to hide the ...

Johannesburg - South African media group Johnnic Communications has acquired an additional 40% stake in Compact Disc Technologies from the Replication Technology Group and Rand Merchant Bank Holdings, ...

Since the very first issue of What Hi-Fi? was published in 1976, we have covered numerous technological advances in the world of hi-fi and home entertainment. Many have stood the test of time – some, ...