Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

CD-R and CD-RW technologies use a combination of metal and dye to fool CD-ROMs into thinking they're reading commercially prepared CDs. In this Daily Drill Down, Faithe Wempen shows you how to ...

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 ...

The longevity of recordable compact discs (CD-Rs), recordable digital versatile discs (DVD±Rs) Endnote 1 and recordable Blu-rays (BD-Rs) is uncertain, leading to a widespread lack of trust by ...

Limited Run Games, the company known for selling limited, special-edition quantities of physical video games, has issued an apology after fans complained that they were having issues playing the ...

It sounds heavenly. Get a recordable or rewritable compact-disc drive for your PC, and you’ll never have to worry about storage capacity again. Plus you’ll be able to make your own music and data CDs.

TORONTO – It was just over 29 years ago that the compact disc was first made widely available to the public, a much-hyped new format that – we were told – was certain to sound vinyl’s death knell with ...

Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...