I never thought I`d be able to lift an entire set of encyclopedias with only my little finger, but I recently did just that. Have I been pumping iron? Hardly, but I am pumped up about CD-ROMs, the ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

It wasn’t long ago that techno-pundits were ready to bury the CD-ROM. The Internet, with its 24-hour-a-day worldwide access, would all but replace the CD-ROM as the medium of the digital age, the ...

Replay: The battlefields of the audio visual world are littered with the corpses of dead formats, none more so than the fight to put moving images on to discs. With the exception of LaserDisc, none of ...

Unlike today, it didn't always seem retro to put a compact disc in a computer in order to find information — three decades ago, in fact, it seemed very cutting edge. As the CBC's Fred Langan reported ...

On October 1, 1982, Sony ignited a digital audio revolution with the release of the world’s first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101 (above), in Japan. It signaled the dawn of a new audio ...

These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has been the ...

A video of what seems to be a prototype of the unreleased CD-ROM/cartridge hybrid console taunts gamers with the console that could have been part of their childhood. CNET freelancer Danny Gallagher ...

There are many of you reading this who still have a lot of love for CDs. We certainly do. If you don't find streaming to be sonically satisfying and haven't been swept up by the vinyl revival, then ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Take a moment to consider that next CD or DVD-ROM drive upgrade. If you thought it could damage your PC - or even your person - would ...

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI),announced today that it had begun preparations to adopt Blu-ray Disc ROM (BD-ROM) format as a medium for the next generation PlayStation®, the successor system ...