Sony’s plant in Tagaze, Japan was the home of its optical disc manufacturing operation ... Swift and Doja Cat albums on CD if your car still has a CD player. Plus, the big stores still carry ...

Since the rise of streaming audio, CD players have been phased out ... the term stands for “compact disc”, a digital optical disc that stores and plays music back via a laser that reads ...

The most common types are CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

Though the rise of MP3 players and writeable optical media helped sink ... of 1.4Mbit/sec to 292kbit/sec to fit a CD’s worth of music onto a disc that holds around 300MB of raw data.

That’s the situation [Chad Boughton] recently found himself in, so he decided to build a compact CD player that could discreetly connect up to his fancy Klipsch speaker. The optical drive itself ...

A rewritable optical disc. First used in drives by Panasonic in the late 1980s, the phase change technology was subsequently employed in all major optical drives, including CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW ...