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

Remembering the quirky and at times short-lived formats for securing our digital photographs and video, exploring what they ...

Over the years, we've seen a variety of physical music formats hit the market, each bringing a unique set of strengths and weaknesses to the table.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small, reusable and designed to replace the CD, Sony expected the MiniDisc to become the future of music - SSPL/Getty Images In ...

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 ...

Compact discs were sold as the durable alternative to vinyl - but anyone who opens the case of an ageing CD may be in for a nasty surprise. Earlier this year, US web designer Dan Koster found 15% of ...

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 ...

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 ...