Sentence examples for cd- from inspiring English sources

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"We could have just played a CD and no one would have been any the wiser".

Related: UK top 10 albums of 2014 are all by British artists for first time Taylor said that the slide in British CD sales, precipitated by the rise of illegal downloads and digital sales and streaming, appeared to be slowing.

Or disruptive like REM's Peter Buck, who attempted to play a CD on the hostess trolley, sat next to a passenger and insisted she was his wife – she wasn't – raided bottles from the galley after he had been told he couldn't have any more booze and threw yoghurt over everyone?

"But it made the world aware of that one particular style of Cuban music, and to me the project is so much bigger than them, it was more than just a CD.

Sales have perversely benefitted from the decline in popularity of physical music – as online streaming becomes the norm, eating into the download market, as well as still-declining CD sales, vinyl becomes an attractive format for object fetishists and committed fans.

CD album sales fell 7.9% last year, having seen falls of 19.5% in 2012, and 12.8% in 2013.

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Eventually, when Hugh Panera, XM Radio's chief executive, was able to flip the switch, the company's two geostationary satellites began beaming 100 channels of CD-quality music and talk to listeners in San Diego and Dallas the two first test markets.But no sooner had the trials started than another problem emerged.

Today we have a meeting of old and new from Deutsche Grammophon and their 50-CD celebration of a century recording the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, symbolised by the release of a tortuous anachronism, something they say could be "the oldest ever recording ever to be released as a new digital single".

This is a far cry from the 300m copies shifted a year in the 1970s in America alone, but a significant uptick from a mere few hundred thousands in the CD-mad mid-1990s.

2. In 1991, Sony revealed that it was working on a new version of the SNES, complete with a CD-ROM drive - it was to be called the "Play Station".

Ringland's computer expertise allowed him to move cursors around the girls' screens; text would appear, their printers would go into action, and their CD-rom trays would fly open and snap shut.

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