Death Knell for cd's?


An article in Yahoo! today predicts the demise of cd's and dvd's in 5 yrs or so because of the future of streaming audio and video. Will streaming audio be inferior cd's? If cd's are killed off in favor and streaming audio is inferior, where will audiophiles get high quality recordings from? Is streaming video capable of encoding a dvd with DTS or DD 5.1? Your thoughts please.
mitch4t

Showing 1 response by bomarc

You're comparing apples and oranges. Streaming can be used with any resolution, from 96 kbps MP3s to 24/192 PCM to DSD. And yes, it can work for video as well.

Streaming may eventually replace prerecorded disk-based media, though I think 5 years is optimistic. There will continue to be a demand for disks from us boomers who haven't grown up downloading music. And the bandwidth isn't there to serve up all that content to everyone who wants it yet.

But I'd like to see this article. Could you post a link?