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docall27 
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 Posted: July 03 2015 at 12:49 |
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No final demise of CD players, at least not yet. I have a hard believing anyone under 30 will embrace the technology and so there may an end point = no demand. With the increasing availability of 24 bit lossless formats, serious audiophiles may go entirely digital. I still like CDs but I'm over 40.
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Posted: July 03 2015 at 12:23 |
 HackettFan wrote:
I listen a lot to CDs in my car. My current vehicle (a Ford C-Max Hybrid) lets me use CDs or MP3s off of a flash drive. I never use the latter. Has anyone yet bought or come across a vehicle in which a USB input is the only option? |
I either have a mix CD in my deck or plug in my Zune and shuffle play. I am not in my car that often as I ride a vanpool to work, doing my bit to save the world  .
Just like I think you can still buy a VHS player, of course these units are no better than a toy, CD Players will always be around. I firmly believe high-end CD Players will continue, in the $1,000+ range, digital audiophiles will pay good money for high-end digital gear. And then you have this one by Esoteric, the K01 runs about $19,000.00. Probably better described as a all Digital media player, discs as well hi-rez files and SACD....pretty sweet.
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Posted: July 02 2015 at 19:39 |
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I listen a lot to CDs in my car. My current vehicle (a Ford C-Max Hybrid) lets me use CDs or MP3s off of a flash drive. I never use the latter. Has anyone yet bought or come across a vehicle in which a USB input is the only option?
Edited by HackettFan - July 02 2015 at 19:40
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Posted: July 02 2015 at 19:27 |
dr wu23 wrote:
Catcher10 wrote:
Remember the OP is asking about "CD Players"......not the disc itself. |
Well...cd's would be useless without the players (unless one plays it through their computers) so I would think some one would continue to make players. There's still a market for them albeit a much smaller one. |
I bought a back up CD player just in case. What I'm seeing from Apple now is that they're no longer including CD/DVD drives in their laptops. They're still selling them as external devices, but I think they're just itching to stop doing that too, and that has me a bit alarmed.
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 15:05 |
Catcher10 wrote:
CDs will never be useless.......
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 15:01 |
CDs will never be useless.......
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 12:17 |
Catcher10 wrote:
Remember the OP is asking about "CD Players"......not the disc itself. |
Well...cd's would be useless without the players (unless one plays it through their computers) so I would think some one would continue to make players. There's still a market for them albeit a much smaller one.
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 12:11 |
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Remember the OP is asking about "CD Players"......not the disc itself.
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 10:38 |
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While the CD might become more unpopular relative to other forms of music media, I can't see it going the way of the eight track.
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Posted: July 01 2015 at 10:02 |
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I don't see it going away anytime soon. I like my hard copies.
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^this
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Posted: June 30 2015 at 17:42 |
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I don't see it going away anytime soon. I like my hard copies.
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 23:20 |
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The CD will live on, but as more and more of a niche product. If not for anything else, than for the artist to make a small run so that they themselves and the people involved will have a tangible, physical product documenting the music they made. But we are now living in the age where it is just as common not to release an album on physical format as it is to do it.
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Posted: June 29 2015 at 22:30 |
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CD will not die in our lifetime.
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Posted: March 08 2015 at 23:28 |
Some data that might contribute to the thought..."Why make a new CDP?" The online digital age killing the CD.....
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 13:18 |
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And I think it is the worse thing that has ever happened in the world of computing because it means that you will no longer own any piece of software or data. You will not be able to buy an album so you will never own it, you will buy a lease that enables you to listen to it. |
I think the digital realm is no more and no less than a microcosm of the greater world. You own nothing, ever. Really.
Job said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will go away'.
I would go a few steps further: you come into the world as a piece of software, loaded into a single cell. Then you continuously loan and return atoms from/to Mother Earth, some of which atoms happen to constitute your body at any given time for as long as you live. And then you die, and all the atoms that you have borrowed, but haven't yet returned are recycled.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 10:14 |
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^ I hope I am dead when this happens........
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 07:49 |
Argonaught wrote:
Darious wrote:
Yes, the same thing happening with people still shooting film cameras or even hand painting pictures, despite very much able digital cameras being widely available. |
Exhibit A: The multipurpose pocket-size electronic device that does it all (the "phone") Exhibit B: The Cloud.
These two will render unnecessary a whole range of stand-alone electronic devices, such as digital cameras, music players of any nature, GPD's, calculators etc.
Being unnecessary doesn't mean heading for imminent extinction. However, since CDs have near zero resale value, offer no sound quality advantage comparing to non-physical lossless files, are nowhere near as cool as LPs and do not age as well as we were lead to believe, I don't see how they can survive either as collectors item or as a niche product for much longer. |
I agree.
And I think it is the worse thing that has ever happened in the world of computing because it means that you will no longer own any piece of software or data. You will not be able to buy an album so you will never own it, you will buy a lease that enables you to listen to it.
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Posted: October 29 2014 at 07:35 |
Darious wrote:
Yes, the same thing happening with people still shooting film cameras or even hand painting pictures, despite very much able digital cameras being widely available. |
Exhibit A: The multipurpose pocket-size electronic device that does it all (the "phone") Exhibit B: The Cloud.
These two will render unnecessary a whole range of stand-alone electronic devices, such as digital cameras, music players of any nature, GPD's, calculators etc.
Being unnecessary doesn't mean heading for imminent extinction. However, since CDs have near zero resale value, offer no sound quality advantage comparing to non-physical lossless files, are nowhere near as cool as LPs and do not age as well as we were lead to believe, I don't see how they can survive either as collectors item or as a niche product for much longer.
Edited by Argonaught - October 29 2014 at 07:36
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 13:53 |
The same as during the 'Back To Vinyl' trend during the CD craze. Special 'high quality' Cds will still be made for those that still want to hold the physical product. When it comes to business, there is usually little sense involved and specialty companies will make $ome big money.
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Posted: October 20 2014 at 12:15 |
SteveG wrote:
There will always be an upscale market for Cd players (transports and DACs) as long as people are willing to $hell out the money. Remember, high end turntables never went away during the CD craze. |
Yes, the same thing happening with people still shooting film cameras or even hand painting pictures, despite very much able digital cameras being widely available. I'm just wondering what will happen to the mainstream when downloadable high resolution files become significantly cheaper than CDs and seriously affordable and competent blu ray/USB players will become more apparent on the market. I guess that the unavoidable will happen 
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