USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs?

I think FIMM also sees the $$$$ advantage of high density floppies or thumb drives vs. CDs.

Bring 'em on. Use a viable and existing interface that can introduce higher res files? Why not?

Seems to me security will be an issue as well as DRM, copyrights, and probably more items I can’t grasp just now with such a device if it were to become mass marketed and really catch on…. Which I feel it could.

The problem though is the appeal. It’s a niche item in a boutique industry. That’s going to slow things down in a real big hurry…. Add to it the extreme proprietary nature of the proposed playback device/server, and the appeal decreases still further.

I’m certainly game for higher resolution files in what ever format but there’s just not loads of them out there and I’m beginning to wonder IF there ever will be. There’s lots more music than symphonies too.

Hopefully this high res music via PC thrust won’t wind up like SACD & DVDA., and become so proprietary and limited in scope as to be the gems of the few… and not the pearls of the many.

Whenever the major recording lables allow direct duping from their 'high res' masters... all of them BTW... regardless the genre, life would be great for the audiophile and finding HD music easily and affordably wouldn’t be an issue..

The problem is the bulk of recording sales isn't aimed just at us. We're the minority here. We'll get overlooked over and over again... Or be required to pay a premium for what could and should be commonly available at nominal costs.

90% of the music junkies out there are quite happy with iPods, ear buds, and downloaded 128K compressed music. The whole of their content gets carried with them wherever they go in their purse or pocket.

Remember the tube output stage docking station for the Ipods? They went over like the Hindenburg, dispite the improved sound quality. And modest costs.

The new or next generation as said above has been trained to hold all their music on something the size of a value pack of gum. Even movies now come off the web in HD.

Libraries and collections will soon be more memory than matter of fact. Terabytes instead of volumes. I think the only obstacle then will be the manner in which the music actually gets conveyed.

We might just wind up having to take some sort of storage drive into an outlet and download it onto the drive right then and there… or music selling stores are just going to vanish altogether and T1 connections will be the norm for home networks.

Values have nearly evaporated from society and now society gets to be still more anti social and remote as for few exceptions, no one will even have to leave the house pretty soon.

Some of my friends now, only have to go into the office once a week.

The films “Surrogates” & “Gamers” could well be editorials for future times, than simple fantasy’s.

Ain’t social progress great?

Kudo's to those cyber geeks that have written apps which can extract the higher res audio from all BUT SACD so far.

As intent as they seem to be to keep people from copying and transmitting recorded info there will always be those who can and will figure out a way around things... from what I see though, it's being done on merely a personal level for ease of use, archiving and the now and then share.

I'd think by now they would have explored other viable means of revenue streams like making available high res dupes from the orig masters for those who wish for such things.

I mean they've already got the info on hand, and need now only a means to convey it easily... and oooh... there's that new thingy called the web... and as said, subscriptions.

hey record companies! we want first off quality audio! Can you hear me/us now?

Sucks to be ignored.... huh?