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Before you laugh at floppy disks, check whether your DVDs are still readable.

Whether it is a collection of emails from your children, family photographs and films, or recordings – both personal and commercial – you want to store these digitized mementos properly so that they ...

In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab at the Sony Corporation’s sprawling audio campus ...

Gen Z’s obsession with physical media and backlash against algorithmic listening has sparked an unlikely revival Ed Power writes about music, television and video games. As a journalist he has often ...

Small, reusable and designed to replace the CD, Sony expected the MiniDisc to become the future of music - SSPL/Getty Images In the late Eighties, the future of music was to be found in a research lab ...

Shanling has announced the EC Play, the most compact and most affordable portable CD player the Chinese manufacturer has produced to date. The EC Play is not positioned as an audiophile statement, but ...

The longevity of recordable compact discs (CD-Rs), recordable digital versatile discs (DVD±Rs) Endnote 1 and recordable Blu-rays (BD-Rs) is uncertain, leading to a widespread lack of trust by ...

Custom Maple bus decoder that provided critical early clues about the dongle's communication protocol. Users must connect their controller in Port A for DreamMovie to recognize it (see more in the ...

You're probably familiar with the vinyl resurgence. The trend, which has been happening for years now, sees a new generation becoming acquainted with vinyl records, as well as record players or ...