Mysteries of CD Revealed

[Burke Strickland]

Well, maybe not all of them, but... :>)

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/entertainment/1887381

I thought it was interesting that one "expert" predicts that CDs will be defunct as a format within five years, while, in answer to the same question, another "expert" says downloading and other formats have been way overrated.

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[George Bellefontaine]

Well, it was an interesting read, Burke.




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[David Meek]

Q. Will music downloads replace pre-recorded CDs? When?

A. Lee Trink, vice president for marketing at Lava Records: The CD format will be defunct in five years. Maybe it won't be gone entirely by then, but it won't be the main format anymore. Who wants to have CDs when you'll be able to download 4,000 songs into something the size of a deck of cards?

Uh, let me see. . . anybody that wants ANYTHING resembling good quality audio? What a loser! :loser:




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[Kevin P]

Uh, let me see. . . anybody that wants ANYTHING resembling good quality audio? What a loser! :loser:

Well, at the rate things are going in terms of hard disk storage capacities, in 5 years that "deck of cards" will likely be able to hold 4000 songs in uncompressed PCM, or a lossless compressed format. In other words, CD quality. So he could be right. Think iPod in '08.

What I see down the road, unless the record companies get off their butts and start offering online distribution of purchased music, is that the CD will primarily be the media the music comes home on, but not what the music is played from.

Down the road I could see having a whole house audio system run off a file server that houses my entire music collection on hard drives. When I get a new CD (or purchased downloaded music file) it would be archived on the server for future use, and the CD put away for safe keeping.




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