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Say Goodbye To CDs

dacalion

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According to the latest issue of VIBE, Industry analysts are predicting that with its 15% drop in sales, this holiday season may just mark the death of the CD.

That would really suck! Can you imagine that? I mean we've seen the death of the cassette tape, Vinyl and now CDs?

I believe that it will make it past the holiday season because no one to my knowledge has truely announced it's replacement. Media cards, MP3 players and thumb drives are very popular these days. Could one of those be the chosen one? I guess time will tell.

Whats your thoughts on this?

MOF
 
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I would think they would still need to release CD's for nostalgic heads. I wouldn't like have just a "media card", that would suck.
 
MarkN

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no CDs are here for a bit longer yet theres been no physical format that has caught on yet and people at the moment still want a physical item a lot of the time, i know if theres a good album out i'll go buy the cd even if i've downloaded it first.
the usb sticks have been tried on a few releases over here but they are expensive most of the time and i don't think they've been that succesful i mean who wants to buy a usb memory stick with mp3s on you may aswell just download it !
also not everyone is up on the internet even now, and some older people still have that fear of buying online, and with the older age group making up a large proportion of sales on cd albums they aren't gonna stop making them yet!
 
dacalion

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MarkN said:
no CDs are here for a bit longer yet theres been no physical format that has caught on yet and people at the moment still want a physical item a lot of the time, i know if theres a good album out i'll go buy the cd even if i've downloaded it first.
the usb sticks have been tried on a few releases over here but they are expensive most of the time and i don't think they've been that succesful i mean who wants to buy a usb memory stick with mp3s on you may aswell just download it !
also not everyone is up on the internet even now, and some older people still have that fear of buying online, and with the older age group making up a large proportion of sales on cd albums they aren't gonna stop making them yet!
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MarkN I agree with you that CD's will be around for a bit longer but thats how they determine the next type of media by getting rid of the current one. they kinda force you to make the decision. You know how people in general don't like change, the same applies here. If they kept CD's in place then MP3 or anything else would remain the same.

8 tracks died in mid 1982, CDs were introduced one year later only we had cassette tapes to fall back on then, but even so, cassettes didnt completely die until 2004. Meanwhile, the best year for CDs was 2001 and they have continued to drop every since. The only upward trend of all media types has been music downloads starting in 2004.

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Sincock

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Yeah, yeah, but they said CDs would be the downfall of vinyl too. People didn't stop buying it and they didn't stop making it. In fact I read recently that vinyl is making more and more of a comeback as labels realise how big the market is. Apparently they are gonna be releasing more albums on vinyl than ever.

MP3s? Personally I stay away. Anything that's lower quality than a 16bit CD isn't worth my time except for checking out shit on the net. IMO.
 
Chrono

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I love it/
It's Progression

I loved the record/8track-cassete decades because when a friend bought an album everyone would come over and listen it.. if the kid was ill you could get a dub for 5 bucks. Nowadays anyone with five minutes on his hand can bootleg everything.

Digital Evolution!

don't hate the technological advancement of scientific-human-digital-understanding (SHDU).
cause this is here to stay. it went from radio and touring in the 60's to album sales in the 90's back to retro. but now its different with 10,000$ Mercury pro tools rtas softwares.

It's Great! there is no way you can fight advancement. In my opinion it will kill the generic stranglehold that the music-monopoly had on the very reason why the populous feels "hiphop" is dead.

hehehe hiphop aint dead just like human expression aint dead. HIPHOP became OVERSATURATED, now this digital revolution will cut the oxygen from the generic so that the balance can yet again be maintained.

I may have became a severe student of Spirituality but everything I have learned from my "agnostic" mentality is proved. by the way the term "agnostic" is culturally racist.

u dig it?

CHRONO_T InYaArEa
 
Chrono

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Kontents said:
I love Cd's... to burn my ripped music onto
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hehe me too :)

p.s. we dont mean bootleg. I love the fact i can (iso) my new protools discs, and all other ridiculiously expensive software we buy.

the digital age is beautiful. Thankfully the i-lok corporation will take care of us if our i-lok's are damaged or destroyed.
 
Ash Holmz

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this a good thing for independent musicians ... cd's are much more expensive to package and distribute than digital media. with the demise of the cd and the transition to all digital distro, you will see independent labels and musicians having the same reach and opportunities that the major labels have. the sooner you embrace it, the better off your be. the only downside to that is the same thing as the upside.. ANYBODY can put out music so your music will have to be exceptional and attention grabbing in order to sell or even be noticed for that matter.
 
eXampuL_oNe

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I think its a good move also. Digital downloads are far more conenient for most consumers and more profitable for the artists. Buy the cd online, download it, then u can do what u want with it.. Put it on a cd, your mp3 player etc... I think its a good thing.. I doubt you will see cd's die out though.. Not for a while yet atleast.
 
dacalion

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The only thing about digital downloading is the quality which sucks but I agree with you on that it being more convenient. CD's will be here another 10 or more years only you wont be able to buy a new artist CD soon. The market is just not there like it used to be.

If we look back, small record stores are almost all but gone and some of the major stores have met the same fate. In my area, we lost Paradise Records, Tracks and Music Warehouse, all of which were major record stores. These were signs of what was to come. I wonder when Best Buy will start feeling the crunch, eventhough they have other things to fall back on. Anyway, with the loss of major record stores comes a major hit in sales and when sales drop, well you know the rest.

In all honesty, look back when you could find home stereo equiptment, thats even hard to come by these days. Pawn shops don't even carry good quality stereo equiptment anymore. We recently loss 2 McFaddens Music Stores. They specialized in musical instruments and home production gear...thats a real bad sign. The internet has become the major resource for music gear.

Its gonna be interesting to see how it all unfolds...

MOF
 
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