Comments on: The CD: headed for extinction

By: Neurottica

Neurottica — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:38:16 +0000

the c.d is alive and well, just not the way we are used to. It is not pumped out by corporate piglets anymore. you are your own record industry now. You decide who and what is on your c.d. Who would want to see that become extinct?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:06:41 +0000

I think the CD is dying, but the author is jumping the gun in his prediction of it’s imminent demise. Vinyl took a few years to fade away after the CD was introduced; the CD will be around for a few years yet.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:05:45 +0000

Redbook CD audio standard is VERY much easier to use/work with/produce than ANY of the previous formats (including vinyl and cassette.) It’s non-volatile, in that it doesn’t “wear” over time to any appreciable extent, the ability to build the things is goddamn near ubiquitous, there’s very literally NO savings to NOT offering it.

Cassettes: harder to mass produce, took specialized equipment to get good sound-quality.
Vinyl (Even harder to produce.)
CD blanks/burner technology: goddamn near ubiquitous, with NO quality difference remaining between “real” CD’s and “Roms”. Data is data.

There is very literally no cost-savings to NOT offering it.
Data is data, after all, and most sound-files do NOT start out as mp3 or some other compressed/lossy format.

Dumbfuck “predictions” like this SHOULD get the author beaten severely and electrocuted via jumper cables to the balls.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:53:34 +0000

Very true. No forumat ever "dies", and the whole "most people just won't care" thing is, quite simply, what's WRONG with the world in the first place. "Most people" are stupid cattle, content to be led around by the nose by whatever "authority" (like the NY times, for example) they've designated as the "paper of record". The "mainstream" is for stupid cattle, which pretty much explains why Britney Spears is actually interesting to them. More to the point, participatory culture is ABOUT whether we "like" something or not; it's not about taking the word of whatever designated "authority" we've been trained to mindlessly obey. This article is the type of shit that makes me hope that John Newton ends up as a hopeless, penniless drunk in a flophouse somewhere. P2pnet has been going downhill for MONTHS....starting with that bullshit PR-move of "I'm going to have to sell it!" --- way to drum up readers, dude.....if only you could bother to put GOOD articles on here anymore.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:36:14 +0000

This babbling dickhead is so full of shit it comes out of his FUCKING EARS………….

The SACD format never caught on.

There is not that many sacd players out there.

You can’t rip a SACD disc.

I quite sure this is going to go over well when people can’t rip mp3 files on their computer with their wave cds.

To the author of this article:

SHUT THE FUCK UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:59:11 +0000

as my grandson would say,YEAH RIGHT.It wasn’t until last year that wal-mart dropped the recorded cassette. How many years?

jack

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:23:23 +0000

I think the CD will die the same kind of death as 8 tracks and cassettes.
Vinyl is different because it comes wrapped in large graphics which continue to be collectible. Fans will hang on to this format and even add to it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:55:03 +0000

to read: Vinyl has been so “unimportant” that…

[body of msg]>…they’ve started to make RECORD PLAYERS ___AGAIN___!!!…WITH, CD players and Cassette Decks included in some ‘packages’.

So, _MAYBE_ the CD will take a hiatus, but it will NEVER “die” just as vinyl has NEVER died…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:51:44 +0000

they’ve started to make RECORD PLAYERS ___AGAIN___!!!…WITH, CD players and Cassette Decks included in some ‘packages’.

So, _MAYBE_ the CD will take a hiatus, but it will NEVER “die” just as vinyl has NEVER died…