When you put a CD into a player, an infrared laser reads up through the transparent polycarbonate plastic substrate comprising most of the disc's thickness and reflects off an embedded aluminum layer.

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Though there are legacy players that offer more, the CD-C603 does have a rather nifty feature called Play X Change that allows the listener to open the multi-disc drawer while a disc is being ...

Adoption was relatively swift and just two years later the first million-selling CD album - Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits – would cement the shiny disc's popularity. By the early ‘90s ...

It just feels nicer. The mechanical whirring of the loading tray as it glides in and the high-pitched whine of the transport mechanism reading the disc give CD players a character that totally silent ...

The team settled on Compact Disc because it was felt it would remind people of the success of the Compact Cassette. In March 1979 Philips conducted a press conference to show off the audio quality of ...