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When do you think CD's will become obsolete?

SSSnail

SSSnail

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How much longer do you think until CD's are obsolete? So that one of these days, some of you can say "back in my days, we had these shiny plastic discs that we copy stuffs to..."
 
They already are obsolete. The capacity of a CD is too low for the amount of data people generate and want to share/store.
 
Probably not for a long time.

Cds in their physical shape wont change. But the formats will change. (we started with audio cds, then dvds and now blue ray)

A total change? Like from VHS to cd discs?

Hmmm I think that what comes out next needs to be more durable than cd discs. I really had my money on mini disc replacing vhs. I was wrong.
 
DVD's and Blu-Ray and downloads have already made them obsolete. The only reason they are sold now is because legacy equipment is ubiquitous.
 
SSSnail said:
How much longer do you think until CD's are obsolete? So that one of these days, some of you can say "back in my days, we had these shiny plastic discs that we copy stuffs to..."
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CDs well when music and other software stops using it, they are really cheap so it could be a long long time.

Now as for that second part.. um when one plastic disc gets replaced with another its kind of hard to do that. It would be more of back in my days, we had these shiny plastic discs that we copy stuff to that didn't even store a gigabyte of data. 😛
 
When a lossless and viable file format comes along. Compressed music might cut it for the vast majority of people listening to music on their $10 earbuds, but connecting your iPod to a mid to high end home theater system is blasphemy. CDs remain uncompressed and that's what will keep them alive for the time being.
 
geno said:
When a lossless and viable file format comes along. Compressed music might cut it for the vast majority of people listening to music on their $10 earbuds, but connecting your iPod to a mid to high end home theater system is blasphemy. CDs remain uncompressed and that's what will keep them alive for the time being.
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wav > mp3 yes, asides from that, I'm surprised they haven't become obsolete already
 
I think media in general will be obsolete in the next 10 years. Everything will be streamed or downloaded.
 
People still use CDs? I honestly don't remember the last time I even touched a CD - at least 2 years, probably more.
 
geno said:
When a lossless and viable file format comes along. Compressed music might cut it for the vast majority of people listening to music on their $10 earbuds, but connecting your iPod to a mid to high end home theater system is blasphemy. CDs remain uncompressed and that's what will keep them alive for the time being.
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Exactly. You don't play a shitty MP3 through a nice audio system.
 
JackBurton said:
Exactly. You don't play a shitty MP3 through a nice audio system.
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No shit man, assume you have never fucked with .flac and .shn? Lossless soundboard recordings are not .mp3

Plus any self respecting audiophile has a turntable, CDs are beyond pointless for music
 
When something cheaper to produce comes along that performs just as well. I was thinking digital media cards but I don't see them getting as cheap as a cd to produce.
 
Given that Vinyl still offers much better sound and CDs sound like crap, CDs are already obsolete by technology before they were even invented.

I remember when CDs were supposed to "last forever". Most of my collection is unplayable because of pitting and it's only 15-20 years old.
 
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