Whois & Analysis for hpb.com

Half Price Books, Records, Magazines, Incorporated is the largest family-owned chain of new and used bookstores in the United States.

The company’s original motto is "We buy and sell anything printed or recorded except yesterday's newspaper", and many of the used books, music, and movies for sale in each location are purchased from local residents.

The corporate office is located in the flagship Northwest Highway location in Dallas, Texas.

Half Price Books now operates more than 120 stores (including outlets) in 17 states.

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony.

The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM).

Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD.

The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan.

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital versatile disc" or "digital video disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995.

The medium can store any kind of digital data and is widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using DVD players.

DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions.

A guitar amplifier (or guitar amp) is an electronic amplifier that strengthens the weak electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.

A guitar amplifier may be a standalone wood or metal cabinet that contains only the power amplifier (and preamplifier) circuits, requiring the use of a separate speaker cabinet–or it may be a "combo" amplifier, which contains both the amplifier and one or more speakers in a wooden cabinet.

There is a wide range of sizes and power ratings for guitar amplifiers, from small, lightweight "practice amplifiers" with a single 8" speaker to heavy combo amps with four 10" speakers and a powerful amplifier, which are loud enough to use in a nightclub or bar performance.

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12 or 10 inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

Introduced by Columbia in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry.

Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound, it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums.