The humble compact cassette, invented for office dictation by Philips Electronics Corp. in the early 1960s, has been about the biggest success story in recorded music. It’s cheap, portable and ...

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be ...

On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording ...

The Mini-Disc never caught on in the U.S. But during the 1990s, the format did in its native Japan, where MD isn’t yet dead. Launching in 1991, MD was the coolest format. It was like a compact disc, ...

The compact disc gave us our first taste of digital music – and we liked it. Upon its arrival in the U.S. in March 1983, the sleek 4.7-inch plastic and aluminum disc – about the size of a drink ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp has developed a technology that boosts the recording capacity of its mini disc by ...

Reader Lynn did the bad thing. She writes: I accidentally inserted a mini disc into my MacBook’s media slot. I can’t remove it. What should I do? If, like your MacBook, you had the ability to go back ...

I have a friend who is selling a mini disc player and I am considering buying it. Unfortunatley, I don't know the model number or type, I do however know the player was probably top of the line 4 ...

The Sony Handycam series of camcorders enables entrepreneurs with little or no videography experience to create high-quality promotional or training videos and play them on standard TVs using cables ...