This year marks 15 years since recordable compact disc technology trickled down to the public at large. Before this, cassette tapes were all the rage for dubbing, recording and other at-home use. The ...

Most people who have halfway decent car stereos and don’t listen to extreme noise bands probably haven’t had to touch a cassette tape in a decade or so–enough time for the cassette format’s many flaws ...

I have an old Onkyo 5-disk CD Changer at home, which typically works fine. However, it doesn't seem to like CD-Rs, but the CD-Rs work fine in my wife's JVC "boom-box", my Phillips-Magnavox CD "walkman ...

Q: I received a CD from someone and I couldn’t read it. Windows Explorer and RecordNow both reported it as a blank CD-R with 703MB available for recording. A replacement CD didn’t work, either. I ...

The mining of technology nostalgia is unrelenting. Earlier this week, we had an unofficial return of the iPod, not to mention Tamagotchis and now Discman. Well, not an actual Discman, which is a Sony ...

Electronics giant Yamaha says it has come up with a solution for what to do with all the empty space that is often left on recordable CDs after you have burned your music, photos or data onto them: ...