NEW YORK – Walt Disney Co. (DIS) music label Hollywood Records is offering a new CD format with extra features to encourage compact-disc purchases in a bid to reverse declining CD sales. Hollywood ...
Do music lovers love CDs? No doubt about it — if we’re talking about the regular 5-inch compact disc. The common-variety CD is an unqualified, worldwide success story. Do music lovers love as well the ...
The compact disc, an unimpeachable leader in recorded audio since 1982, could use some spin control. The venerable CD has taken some big hits this year. The recording industry all but gave up its ...
In 1982, when the BBC’s prime-time technology show – Tomorrow’s World – did a segment on a new musical format called the “Compact Disc” the presenter skeptically asked "Whether there's a market for ...
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 ...
Blur and Smiths producer Stephen Street recently stopped by as a guest on Cambridge Audio's Made By Music podcast, but despite his landmark work with indie artists coming in the heyday of the compact ...
Vinyl is booming, streaming services are more popular than ever, and we’re all depressed. This means one thing and one thing only: it’s time to reassess CDs. Yes, friends, you read that correctly. The ...