CD Dead??


A good friend informs me that the CD player is going the way of the dinosaur and that digital music servers will replace the disks and the players with uncompressed downloads. Anyone else hearing this?
dmusarradds

Showing 1 response by drew_eckhardt

>Are you going to carry around the server on your back with some headphones?

Definitely. A 160G hard-drive based ipod is about the size of a pack of cigarettes and holds about 270 uncompressed full-length CDs, perhaps 500 with lossless compression. A few hundred dollars will buy one from Apple.

Here's a board with 640G of flash memory, enough for 1000 uncompressed CDs, which has no moving parts and about the size of a CD.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/images/fusion31.jpg