The in-car CD player has enjoyed a 25-year run, but its demise is nigh. Really nigh. At the end of 2011, Ford will give the heave-ho to CD changers, and other manufacturers are likely to follow. That ...

In-dash CD players are finally going the way of Razor scooters, shell necklaces and Ja Rule. Automakers have predicted this for the better part of the past decade as car stereos augmented the standard ...

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Since the mid-2010s, fewer and fewer new cars have been decked out with CD players. In-dash stereos are instead usually equipped with the long-standing car radio and some kind of media playback option ...

(KRON) — If you purchased a new car model within the past few years, chances are they don’t have this: a CD player. In the digital age of online streaming, CD players have become a rarity — long from ...

Technology has its own form of survival of the fittest. Once-popular media formats are eventually pushed aside as the masses move on to the new, more convenient way to watch movies, listen to music or ...

It's possible I may have asked about this before. Couldn't find the thread, but I have more info now than I probably did then. Now then, I have a model year 2000 car, obviously incapable of playing ...

The very first automotive compact disc player — the Pioneer CDX-1 — launched in 1984, but it wasn't until a few years later that you could purchase a new car with a factory-equipped unit. At the time, ...