Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today

TechCrunch ^ | Thursday, October 21, 2010 | MG Siegler

[ExTxMarine]

Sorry, but you are mistaken.

[djf]

If I am not mistaken, I am now the last known American who still has a record player.

U kiddin?
The hand-made high end replacement cartridge for my turntable now runs about 1600 bux.
I can get a cheapo version for about 250...

So my B&O gets alot of TLC...

[ExTxMarine]

How about paper tape?

While I was in the Marine Corps in 1987, I was one of the first people to use a "new" process for remotely ordering materials in a forward area.

I ran all my systems on an old tack-specific computer system called a Green Machine. Then I dumped my data to a paper tape. I took the paper tape to the comm center where they converted the data to magnetic tape. Then I took the mag tape to the radio center where they would send it back to Okinawa via low priority radio transmissions (it took HOURS).

In the morning I would pick up the mag tape reply and take it to the comm center where they would convert the reply to paper tape and then I would take that back to my office and read the paper tape back into my local machine to update my orders and be able to track my equipment, etc...

Boy, we have come a VERY long way!!!

[a fool in paradise]

At least we still have DVDs.

[dangerdoc]

bump

[discostu]

Record players have made a comeback:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=qs&field-keywords=record%20player&sourceid=Mozilla-search

as have records:
http://www.whatarerecords.com/

The new Jimi Hendrix box set next month is available in all vinyl:
http://www.amazon.com/West-Coast-Seattle-Boy-Anthology/dp/B003YDZV9U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1287698605&sr=8-2

though that is the most expensive version.

[Swordmaker]

Obituary for the CD...prognostication —PING!

Please!
No Flame Wars!
Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!

Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

Apple killed the CD? Ping!

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[ExGeeEye]

Mine is like this one.

[martin_fierro]

[I see my hands]

A lump of coal and the back of a shovel work for me.

[Billthedrill]

The guy at the CD store told me never to trust my valuable disks to a cheap plastic rewinder. For a mere $300 he sold me one in brushed aluminum with ten speeds and a clear glass stacker. Awesome device - it’s made by somebody named “Cuisinart”. Probably a high-end audio company.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice CD rack.

[JoeProBono]

[BunnySlippers]

You never know with someone like Yanni ...

[dragnet2]

Funny how these new developments surrounding computers cause the most wasted time and wasted productivity.

Whatever new PC technology creates like new operating systems etc, it is outweighed by the time wasted converting over to the new latest technologies...

It's all about $....Force people to buy more stuff.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

There will continue to be blank CDs sold, but looking for them in, for example Best Buy; the shelf technology used to lay out the store templates probably results in near-homogeneity; you’ll have to walk over into the coffin corner. There’s a few selections of blank CDs, quite near the one remaining selection of floppy disk, and also nearby one will find a still-decent but shrunken selection of blank DVDs.

“For the eighth time in nine years, U.S. album sales declined.”

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/01/cd-sale-free-fall-continued-in-2009/

[notatard?]

Nope - unless a turntable doesn’t fit your definition of “record player”. I love my vinyl - over 300 mostly classic rock albums. FMCDH!

[stripes1776]

I sure wish they would bring back 8-tracks.

I miss the wax cylinders that Edison invented.

[liberty75]

291,666.667 cards! Do I win any Nuka-Cola caps? :)