Anyone who’s been into music and movies for a long time probably has a basement littered with obsolete technology. Every hear of DiscoVision? This format (also known as the LaserDisc) was developed in
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Almost exactly 40 years ago, a new music format called the “compact disc” was being touted as the future of recorded music. It all seems so science-fiction-y back then. Here’s how the BBC
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The introduction of the compact disc brought the music industry out of a terrible post-disco recession but also created a new wave of prosperity that lasted for the rest of the century. But
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I remember a period in the 90s when people swore that there was an insanely simple way of making any compact disc sound better. All you had to do was take a green
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] After more than a decade of work, building on an idea first posited in 1931 for a device known as the “optophone,” Sony of
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It was on August 17, 1982, when the first commercially-available compact disc rolled out of the Philips factory in Germany. According to some records, the very first title produced for stores was The
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Ad time for the Super Bowl is sold out. NBC got US$7 million per spot. And now, some free music news for February 5, 2022. Interesting: After Joni Mitchell pulled her albums from
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Have you ever heard the name Jim Russell? He’s an American scientist. The name doesn’t ring a bell? Russell is the guy who essentially invented the compact disc and the DVD. Wait a
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The future of the company disc became a little more wobbly last week when it was announced that Lorde’s Solar Power album will be released on vinyl and a digital download but NOT
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[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. -AC] When the skews appeared for Lorde’s Solar Power album, her first record in four years, something was missing. There was a number for a digital download,
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On the afternoon of October 1, 1982, Sony introduced a new home stereo gizmo: the world’s first compact disc player. They called it the CDP-101. Weird name, that. But if you take it
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