Manufacturers never imagined that CD and DVD discs could be used like this! This technical hack reveals an unconventional way to repurpose these old discs, giving them a new life and purpose.

Music lovers and file collectors can play CD, SACD, and DVD-Audio audio discs as well as audio files ... The Magnetar UDP800’s on-screen menu isn’t fancy, but it is easy to understand ...

Everyone knows optical disc formats like CD and DVD, but history is littered with other attempts to make shiny round discs that hold some sort of recording. With very mixed results! I like to poke ...

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 As removable media, optical discs superseded the earlier magnetic disk cartridges because they weigh less, have higher capacities and are not subject ...

Vinyl and streaming may grab all the headlines, but CDs are still going strong – in fact, CD sales have seen an uptick in recent years, which is always good news to fans of physical formats. Whether ...

The disc kicked in by the late ’80s, delivering a boom that continued until the internet, MP3s and Napster nearly killed it off by the mid-2000s. (Using similar technology, DVD and even CD-ROM ...