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 ...

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 ...

Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That protracted will-they-won’t-they romance produced pages of breathless gossip columns ...

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 ...

CD-Audio and CD-ROM were established in the early 1980s as the "new thing" to replace the venerable analog long-playing record. This digital format was very quickly accepted as the standard because it ...

Computer lingo is loaded with letters, numbers and acronyms, but five stand out above the rest: CD-ROM. An acronym known only among aficionados as recently as five years ago, it is now so universal ...