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New DVD Designed to Last 1,000 Years

Neal Colgrass — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:43:23 CDT

Are you hoping that future generations will watch fine modern fare like Mars Needs Moms a thousand years from now, on DVDs that can endure 932 degrees Fahrenheit? You're in luck, thanks to Millenniata, a company that has created the M-Disk—a DVD that stores data on synthetic material that...

Ford Dumping Car CD Players

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:10:05 CDT

Consumers have already started ditching CDs for digital music , and now the auto industry may be catching up. Ford is planning to scrap CD players in its new models, the Daily Mail reports. In the newest Focus model, a USB plug will allow drivers to use their digital music players....

GE Launches Disc That Stores 500GB

Harry Kimball — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:07:05 CDT

General Electric has announced a new DVD-sized disc that holds 500 gigabytes of data—the equivalent of 20 Blu-Ray discs or 100 DVDs. Aimed at archivists but likely headed for the consumer market, the micro-holographic disc saves more data by storing it in three dimensions rather than on the disc's...

The CD Turns 25

Kevin Spak — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:06:46 CDT

The compact disc, which Wired calls an "obsolete form of optical media," has been spinning for 25 years today, according to a press release from Philips. The first disk, a recording of ABBA’s “The Visitors,” was produced in Hanover, Germany in 1982. A stunning 200 billion CDs have been produced...

CD Sales Drop 20%

Sam Gale Rosen — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:33:35 CDT

CD sales plunged more than 20% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, and online music sales didn't come close to making up the difference. Closing stores, weak albums, and over a billion songs shared illegally every month combined to deliver the sharpest...