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 ...

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 ...

Q. Why won't the CD I burned on my computer play on my car stereo? A. Compact disc players have evolved quite a bit since the CD format was introduced in the 1980's. The past few years have brought ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

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 ...