The compact disc, as well as the DVD disc, remain a very popular music/ video carrier, because of their digital quality, portability, and resilience to damage, and remain a very popular gift. Comments ...

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 ...

Compact discs weren’t always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And ...

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 ...

Compact disc digital audio technology reproduces sound with remarkable accuracy, clarity and a dynamic range up to 90db, without distortion and surface noise such as “pops” and “ticks.” ...

Follow us below as we chronicle the rise (and demise) of the late, great, Compact Disc. Related: Best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max (HBO), and more ...

Commentary | The Last Compact Disc and Digital Assurance by Steven M. Huybrechts and Jerry Welsh June 27, 2012 January 30, 2023 Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X ...

That compact disc was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, which had already become a multiplatinum hit after its original release in 1978.As Time pointed out, 52nd Street wasn't technically the first CD ...

When the Compact Disc Digital Audio standard came out in 1980, there was a curious fact about it: It was 74 minutes long. Not 60 minutes. Or an even 70 minutes.