Prices on portable CD players have dropped, and consumers now have more choices than ever. Troubleshooter Judi Gatson has some suggestions on the best buys for anyone looking to use a portable CD ...

The player suffers no problems breezing through the deliberate defects of the Philips CD test disc, although it did start a bit late on the test disc track that has no space preceding it.

Microsoft Automated Troubleshooting Services fix a CD drive For at least one Vista user, Microsoft's free "Fix it" service got an optical drive running again.

The first consumer compact disc player, the Sony CDP-101, was released in Japan forty years ago, on 1st October 1982.