Once thought of as a ‘dead format,’ the compact disc has looked to have received a new lease of life. From Millennials ...

An obsolete form of optical media known as the "Compact Disc" celebrates its 25th birthday tomorrow. In a press release issued Thursday, Philips said a staggering 200 billion of them were produced ...

Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and ...

Spotify? YouTube? iTunes? Forty years ago the world got its first glimpse of what would become one of the most important music devices in history - the compact disc (CD). The CD was invented in 1979.

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So the Compact Disc is in terminal decline, it seems. Everyone is streaming, so those charity shops once stacked high with boxes of discarded vinyl records now have stacks of old CDs instead at a buck ...

The music industry ended up leaning into the "disc" usage — compact disc for CD and disc jockey for DJ — after the French term for "music club," which was "discotheque," meaning music library.

When a writer publishes a book, the publisher commonly offers the book in several different formats. For example, audio technology now allows publishers to release books in both electronic and ...