CD Dead??

"About computer files -
All it takes is ONE nasty bug to wipe out your entire data."

This is why you have backups and external HDs. Cd's will be around for a while as others have stated. You just won't have the selection that is available through downloads.

I personal wouldn't invest a lot of money in a CD player. Their resale value has fallen drastically over the last couple of years. Good for the fellas wanting a nice player for 1/3 the retail. ;-)

CD/ DVD player guys are still pondering over HD and Blu- Ray. Us PC guys just go and buy a combo drive that does both and forget about the wars. This is where a PC or Mac will always be superior ..it is upgradeable for many years. You're not stuck with a one format deal.

It seems to me that the audio industry is still churning out some excellent CD players, so apparently they do not believe that the CD is dead unless they are counting on new equipment purchases by owners of large CD collections. I have also read that compressed files from servers lack the same quality sound as CD, but than again I doubt that the masses are concerned about sound quality. I am still trying to fathom how the industry for the most part, murdered SACD. I just wish that the music industry would abandon the current madness of eliminating the natural dynamic range of the music to make it "loud".

The point,as I understood it is that the music industry would want to download uncompressed music rather than issuing CD's. When you "buy" a CD you would be simply downloading the file, thereby eliminating the disc manufacturing process, the need for CD players, the distributors and retailers. That would be a huge financial benefit to the industry. A server like device with a huge hard drive would then hold your entire music library. And let's be real, how hard would it be for a computer like device to do a spectacular job of converting these files to analog?

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DUMB was for Bowbow's really dumb question