Tag: CD

Got to hand it to those British Royals. In their own way, they're pretty cutting edge. In 1960, for instance, they were the first to televise a royal wedding service. (Blame them for the countless horrific wedding-related reality shows.) The royals are again acting oh-so-cutting-edge (not to mention classy) by planning a digital release of Kate and William's entire ceremony, mere hours after ...

Now that WikiLeaks has leaked thousands of sensitive documents into the world, the U.S. military is stepping up its efforts to make sure that it won't happen again. According to Wired, the military has decided to ban all personnel from using DVDs, CDs, thumb drives and any other form of removable media that can transfer data from computer to portable device. Anyone who violates the policy will ...

We all have our own favorite sites to consult for the latest movie, music or video game releases. With a cleanly designed site called 'When it Drops,' though, Web surfers can now find all this information with one click of a mouse. Each week, When it Drops gives a snapshot of the latest movies, DVDs, albums, books and video games to hit the market that week, as well as the products released the ...

Even though Jeanne-Claude, wife and partner in art to Christo, died at the end of last year, large-scale art interventions don't need to disappear. Not that we're comparing the creators of 'The Gates' (2005) and 'Running Fence' (1976) to Bruce Munro, the British lighting designer and creative mind behind 'CD Sea' -- a scattering of 600,000 compact discs over Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England ...

Has the digital zeitgeist blown the CD out of irrelevance and into the realm of retro art curio? We wrote just earlier this week about Tristan Perich's limited-edition chiptune array built into a CD jewel case, and now we've just stumbled upon this hybrid audio object by electronic musician Jeff Mills. Mills' new project 'The Occurrence' blends the truly antiquated with the relatively ...

While we have out doubts, a Romanian scientist claims the CD isn't dead just yet. In fact, he says its potential hasn't even been fully-tapped. According to Engadget, Eugene Pavel, founder of Storex Technologies, claims he could create a "Hyper" CD that would store 1,000,000 gigabytes of information. Not only could this Hyper disc hold a petabyte (yes, that's what you call all those zeroes) of ...

If you lived through the MP3 revolution and still managed to hold on to a few of those ancient relics known as CDs, they're probably in pretty bad shape. A few scratches here and there, though, don't necessarily mean that you have to toss your entire Van Halen box set out with the Thursday morning trash. [Ed. note: Although you should've done so with the Sammy Hagar era stuff long ago.] The only ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Growing up in the '80s and '90s, Microsoft Encarta was a standby in the classroom CD rack. PC Mag examines 10 other forgotten compact discs of the era, ranging from ...

We live in an age when the fidelity of our music is seemingly less important than our ability to easily access, transport, and share it. As vinyl records were eventually replaced almost entirely by CDs as the predominant music format, MP3s and other files have now become the standard. They are digitally compressed (to varying degrees), making them sound significantly 'thinner' (read: lower ...

As a motley group of music snobs, avid gamers, and movie buffs, we hate to admit this. Really, we do. But the vast majority of our listening, playing, and viewing takes place not in an acoustically treated home-entertainment fortress, but on a couch in front of a laptop. Seeing as that's the case, we really don't need all those fragile, easily smudged discs lying around as we once did. And even ...

Although digital music sales continue to rise, CDs still account for the market majority in the U.S. When it comes to the burgeoning online world, though, iTunes stands alone. Macworld writes that a recent report released by NPD Musicwatch showed that 25-percent of the songs purchased in the United States during the first months of 2009 came from the iTunes store. That makes iTunes the most ...

Given the waste generated by production and packaging, it should be obvious that purchasing actual CDs creates far more strain on the environment than just downloading music. According to the New York Times, though, some people felt the need to finance a study on the matter, anyway. In a study funded by both Microsoft and Intel, academicians at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University ...

The book and music retailer Borders may soon be removing CDs and DVDs from its stores' shelves, according to a report in the Consumerist. Apparently, this past Monday, a Borders employee wrote the Consumerist, claiming that "most Borders [stores]" will remove 75-percent of their CD and DVD inventory over the next couple of months. According to this tipster, whose veracity has not been ...

We're not quite sure how much related celebrating went on this past weekend, but the iconic Compact Disc managed to hit the big three-oh. The IEEE was credited with presenting its prestigious IEEE Milestone Award to Royal Philips Electronics for its contribution to the development of the CD, and as the story goes, the award coincides with the 30th anniversary of the "historic demonstration of ...

If you're old enough to remember floppy disks, you're old enough to remember the days of installing programs 1.4 megabytes at a time. A blank CD-R can store something like 500 times that amount of information, and a DVD-R many times more than that, so even we nostalgic old-timers aren't quite willing to go back to the ways of exchanging files by floppy. But, if you're dying for a taste of the ...