Elizabeth:
I just found about the BCD-1 from James Tanner at Bryston. However, they are not abandoning support for prior BCD-1 owners, so they apparently have enough drives for warranty support.
But to your point, what happens after 3 years or so? Bryson is pushing the BDP-1 digital player as a replacement, but this has other issues such as the enormous effort required to convert my current CD collection to digital media. Then, once converted, the hassle of finding a specific album or piece of music from the directory. I am not an Apple customer, so this leaves me with trying to find stuff via that LCD on the front panel (not a viable option IMHO).
There has also been some discussion about compatibility of some USB thumb drives with the BCD-1.
I just found about the BCD-1 from James Tanner at Bryston. However, they are not abandoning support for prior BCD-1 owners, so they apparently have enough drives for warranty support.
But to your point, what happens after 3 years or so? Bryson is pushing the BDP-1 digital player as a replacement, but this has other issues such as the enormous effort required to convert my current CD collection to digital media. Then, once converted, the hassle of finding a specific album or piece of music from the directory. I am not an Apple customer, so this leaves me with trying to find stuff via that LCD on the front panel (not a viable option IMHO).
There has also been some discussion about compatibility of some USB thumb drives with the BCD-1.