are cds becoming obsolete?

Answer 1

sooner or later! remember the mini disc? that's gone! and it wasnt even around for a long time either! Cassettes? Records?
8 track tapes. I'm a young teacher and I recall the switch from records to cassettes. My own teachers used to tell me that they were not a broken record and would not repeat themselves. I used that line a while back and I showed my age to the kids. They all had the look like huh? what's a record? I couldn't stop laughing at how they reacted and how old i felt! Now I say "broken CD". :-)



(can't wait to see what will replace the ipod and mp3 player. the dvd has replaced the VHS video tape for a long time too)

Answer 2

Anyone who doesn't think CDs are becoming obsolete hasn't lived through the age of vinyl records. Back in the 1970's and 1980's, when there was a release date for a new record you wanted, you would show up at the store that very first day to buy it. Sometimes it would already be sold out. Compare that with today. How many people race out the door to buy some non-descript looking CD that typically has no inserts, no good cover art, and no lyrics to read? I used to frame some records. Even today, The Container Store still sells special frames for doing this. The albums were art (some of you may remember the movie, XANADU, with Olivia Newton John. The co-star played a guy who painted the cover art for records). CD's are just bland. There is nothing to excite the imagination. Some records, like certain special editions of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" or "Captain Fantastic" came with huge lyric sheets with lots of great pictures. This was something you wanted to hold in your hand and read as you listened to the music. When I listened to RUSH's "Hold Your Fire" CD, I was thrilled it came with lyrics, althought they were in such small print it was sometimes hard to read. The joy of music is fading. It's not just sound that makes up the music experience, it's all the accompanying things: art, lyrics, posters, special inserts, etc. Now we have sterile little CD's. No one cares so much about the whole music experience, so we just download. I think I'll go to ITunes and get some new music now. Thanks for reminding me.

Answer 3

Just last week I listen to an evaluator on the radio. He said if they didn't bring the price down to under 10 dollars, they would. He said the top 3 retailers said they would stop carrying them. They were not selling and using valuable shelf space.People would just down load them. He went on to give current values of existing Cd's

Answer 4

I think that within 10 years all music will be online and for a flat monthly fee you can just play anything when you want. There will no reason to keep the music since all music players will connect wireless to the internet to access the music at any time.

Answer 5

yes but not for the next couple of years... DVD are now becoming very cheap and so are the disks so they will fade out like the floppy disks did

Answer 6

not yet but soon. they will be replaced by digital storing media like Flash drives

Answer 7

I hope not.

Answer 8

not yet ...