Compact Disc
Data Storage Medium
Have Your Ears Adjusted To MP3s? [News]...of music in several musical formats from standard MP3s to higher fidelity uncompressed files equivalent to what would be heard on a Compact Disc. According to the study, every year more and more students actually preferred the sound of... In this article: Stephen Street, Compact Disc, Stanford, IPod, MySpace, Stephen Morrissey, The Smiths, Kaiser Chiefs, and Blur |
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New Kerala | October 15, 2009
Euro Multivision share hits the floor with 6.6 per cent discount
Mumbai, Oct 15 : Compact disc maker Euro Multivision today got listed at Rupees 70 on BSE at a discount price of 6.66 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange over its issue price of Rupees 75 per share. On the National Stock Exchange, the...
In this article: Bombay Stock Exchange, Bhachau, Mumbai, and India
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CrunchGear | October 01, 2009
Happy Birthday, CDs
The Compact Disc was quite a revolution when it came out. With a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and a 16 bit rate, CDs marked the shift to digital music. Unfortunately, it seems to have fallen from being the playback medium of choice. These days,...
In this article: Urban Outfitters
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Wired Top Stories | September 30, 2009
Oct. 1, 1982: Portable Music Enters the Spin Zone
...x 5 x 12½-inch unit. Worse yet, the CD player's media library was pathetic. At launch a mere 113 albums were available for purchase. Compact discs themselves were not exactly inexpensive either. A single album sold for around $33 to $45 in...
In this article: Sony, Compact discs, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Wired.com, IPod, Michael Bay, Dire Straights, and Australia
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Centre Daily Times | September 24, 2009
127th AES Convention Charts Daily Lunchtime Keynotes
...earliest audio recordings audible to all people for all time. Sunday, October 11, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Beethoven, Shannon, and the Compact Disc: Moderator, Kees Immink, Turing Machines Inc., Rotterdam Over the past twenty-five years...
In this article: Audio Engineering Society, Kind of Blue, Ashley Kahn, Kees Immink, Intrinsic value, and Peabody Award
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Indiana Times - The Economic Times | September 17, 2009
Euro Multivision's IPO to hit market
...IPOs-Markets-The Economic Times Euro Multivision's Rs 66-cr IPO to hit capital mkt on Sep 22 17 Sep 2009, 1733 hrs IST, NEW DELHI: Compact disc maker Euro Multivision Ltd, which hopes to raise about Rs 66 crore through its initial...
In this article: Project management, Economic Times, Bhachau, and New Delhi
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Compact Disc to spin off int'l film biz
...film biz- Entertainment-Media / Entertainment -News By Industry-News-The Economic Times Compact Disc to spin off international film biz MUMBAI: Compact Disc India Ltd said on Friday that its board has approved spinning off its...
In this article: Economic Times, Internet Explorer 6.0, and Reliance Industries
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CNN | August 20, 2009
Make money off online music
...Free downloads nearly killed the record business. A generation of youthful customers got used to the idea that music should be given away. Compact disc sales fell around 15% annually year after year. Yet the peak of this trend now appears...
In this article: Apple, Recession, Wal-Mart, Warner Music, Itunes, NPD Group, Nasdaq, and EMI Music
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All things digital – all feeds - ATD | August 18, 2009
Not Dead Yet! The CD Still Rules Music (But iTunes Is Closing the Gap). [MediaMemo]
...since singles make up the majority of iTunes sales.] Ready to toss dirt on the old, unloved CD? You're going to have to wait a while. Compact discs are increasingly hard to find (at least in physical stores), but someone out there keeps...
In this article: Apple, Itunes, NPD Group, Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, Steve Jobs, Revenue, and CMX
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | July 19, 2009
1979 Rumor: Leaked Docs of Compact Disc Audio Format Using LASERS [Giz 79]
1979 Rumor: Leaked Docs of "Compact Disc" Audio Format Using LASERS [Giz 79] From 1979: A source "close to the matter" claims this document outlines a future Audio format that would utilize a tapeless design, and *snort* use lasers as some...
In this article: Gizmodo
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www.washingtonpost.com | August 17, 2007
Compact Disc Celebrates 25th Anniversary
...sheen began rolling off an assembly line near Hanover, Germany. An engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable as Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday _ and whose future is increasingly in doubt...
In this article: Philips, Sony Corp., IPod, Apple Inc., Combos, Revenue, and Semiconductor
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A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was developed to store music at the start, but later it also allowed the storing of other kinds of data. CD have been available since October 1982. In 2009, they are still the standard physical medium for commercial audio recordings.
Standard CDs have a diameter of 120 mm and can hold up to 80 minutes of audio (700 MB of data). The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 mm; they are sometimes used for CD singles or device drivers, storing up to 24 minutes of audio.
The technology was later adapted and expanded to include data storage CD-ROM, write-once audio and data storage CD-R, rewritable media CD-RW, Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD.
CD-ROMs and CD-Rs remain widely used technologies in the computer industry. The CD and its extensions are successful: in 2004, worldwide sales of CD audio, CD-ROM, and CD-R reached about 30 billion discs. By 2007, 200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide.
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