TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The compact disc, or simply the CD as its most commonly referred to these days, turned 30 years old on October 1, 2012.

In 2000, record sales were dropping thanks to file sharing, and suddenly, used CDs were a much bigger problem for record ...

Also called "CD Plus," "Enhanced CD" and "Enhanced CD-ROM," it is a Compact Disc (CD) format that contains both audio and data. It uses the multisession capability to store up to 98 audio tracks ...

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 ...

That the CD even played without any issue on the Marantz CD6007, the external drive, the Panasonic Blu-ray player, and ...

Tue 7/15, 8 PM, Cafe Mustache, 2313 N. Milwaukee, free, 21+ Kevin King sees releasing on CD as a way to exercise artistic autonomy. Young people are also releasing music on CD.

It has been 41 years since the very first Compact Disc (CD) was produced in the world, paving the way for the future of commercialized music. In Germany, a factory run by Royal Philips Electronics ...

Customs officers arrested a woman, 25, and a man, 29, when they raided a pirate compact disc CD-Rom manufacturing centre in Tai Po and a storage centre in Wan Chai. A CD-Rom writer for duplicating ...

Busting the Disc Link CD-ROM Patent As the last president of the now-extinct Info-Mac Network, I have several times in the last few years received requests from lawyers or their staffs for certain ...