2:34 Edmonton record lovers and owners react to vinyl outselling CDs When Luminate, the company that monitors music sales and streaming consumption, released its weekly numbers last week, I sighed ...

Compact discs are creating a boom for the struggling music industry by offering music lovers stereo recordings free of snaps, crackles and pops. The technology, relatively unknown three years ago, has ...

Back in the 1980s, Peter Giles knew that the fledgling music format, the compact disc, came with some compromises. CDs were smaller than vinyl record albums. That meant the end of the 12-inch album ...

Thirty-five years after the format was introduced as one of the greatest audio advancements since the birth of recorded music — and unwittingly unleashed digitized music into the wild — the once ...

With so much in doubt about the future of the CD it's easy to overlook that on Friday the Compact Disc format will turn 25. In Germany the world's first CD was pressed, belonged to Polygram – the ...

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. DVDs may seemingly be a thing of the past, but there are ...

Towards 2000 debuted on the ABC in 1981. It was a half-hour program showcasing developments and inventions in science and technology. One of the early highlights was this report about the imminent ...