Today marks 43 years since the first commercial compact disc (CD) pressing. Polygram in Germany is credited with pressing the ...

It's been 43 years since the first Comact Discs were pressed in 1982, ushering in an age of vastly superior fidelity ruined ...

On August 17, 1982, engineers at a Polygram factory in Langenhagen, Germany, pressed the first commercial compact disc, ...

The very first Compact Disc to be manufactured at a factory in August 1982 was the album The Visitors by the Swedish pop ...

than a foil-plated compact disc. We're hyper-aware of this, which is why this baroque journey into the medium of the CD has been so fascinating for us.

Compact discs and compact disc players are the hottest things to hit the audio market since cassette tapes and players. However, this new technology, commonly referred to as “CD,” offers more ...

In 1973, he designed and built a prototype of the compact disc — the CD. His method of storing music on CDs eventually sparked the interest of two companies: Sony had the music catalog, and ...

Best Buy cuts compact discs. As with 78 rpm records and 8-track tapes before them, does the news further the compact disc’s march toward redundancy? Are CDs now on their way to becoming a niche ...

“The Compact Disc has proven its significance in bringing the highest quality of music to consumers who wish to enjoy scratch free music. The enormous success of the CD over the last twenty-five years ...

Brothers in Arms heralded the start of the Compact Disc revolution, kick-starting a quarter-century-long boom for the music industry and introducing five-inch silver discs into homes around the world.

Forty years ago today, a magnificent revolution swept across the music industry, making albums more accessible and enhanced audio playback. The Compact Disc became popular in the late 1980s and ...