The Compact Disc, is the forefather of today’s extensive family of optical discs for a wide range of applications such as CD-Rom, CD-R and CD-RW, DVD, DVD R, DVD RW and Blu-ray.

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 ...

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 ...

Compact Disc’s star has well and truly faded. At its peak, at the turn of the century, just short of a billion silver discs were sold in the USA in a year. Fast forward to 2022 and that number had ...

What we don't hear: The hiss from a tape or cassette, or the scratch and crackle of a vinyl record. It was the first acoustic encounter with a CD for most of us and a revelation for our young ...

It’s a little-known fact that a Battelle scientist’s love of classical music led to the development of the compact disc. In the mid-1960s, Jim Russell began looking for a way to improve the ...