The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...
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 ...
In these days of iPods, desktop stereos seem so 20th Century. Still, when I heard about RCA’s new contraption, I was intrigued. Like VCR/DVD combos and camera-docking printers, it’s an innovation ...
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 ...
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Sony's MiniDisc was better than the CD, but one fatal flaw ruined it
The short-lived storage format that tried to replace CDs (and nearly succeeded) ...
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