Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!

Gizmodo ^ | 08 March 2009 | Jack Loftus

[ShadowAce]

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe we shouldn’t have been investing in CDs all these years...

[Mr. Mojo]

Reminds me (yet again) that I never should’ve sold my vinyl collection.

[qam1]

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[martin_fierro]

It took three networked computers and like 3 days to convert my entire CD collection to MP3. Sheesh.

[Borges]

MP3s still don’t as good as CDs. Especially for Classical.

[Always Right]

Compact Disks??? No way. You will have to pry all my 8-tracks from my cold dead fingers.....

[a fool in paradise]

The industry raped profits with a price fixing scheme (they were later taken to a class action lawsuit, settled out of court with dozens of states, and paid off with crappy deadstock cutout CDs). Even when production cost for CDs dropped below that of LPs and cassettes, the price for the shiny discs remained higher in the stores than the other formats (same albums, same time frame).

Records were shown the door (pushed out the door literally) and consumers repurchased recordings they already had in their collection in a new “hip” format. Home recording standards were stifled for YEARS (the original “consideration” was that you could only re-write to a CD around 7 times, most consumers are using CD-R, not CD-RW, so this should not have been the sole hindrance).

[martin_fierro]

Meh, I can live with it.

[a fool in paradise]

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[BookmanTheJanitor]

The 8 track could come back.... :o)

[swain_forkbeard]

I think I must have missed your point.

[a fool in paradise]

Right, which is why the market will be slow to adopt an improvement like CD+ or DVD-Audio. The marketplace is willing to accept low-fidelity recordings in mp3 if they are cheap enough (free) or extremely portable (10,000 song collections on the go).

[a fool in paradise]

They are pressing some really nice 180-220 gram records today (remastered re-issues as well as new releases on old and new artists).

[Always Right]

I will give that collection a pass on ABBA, but David Soul?

[colinhester]

Reminds me (yet again) that I never should’ve sold my vinyl collection.

Got rid of my original album collection years ago - set them in the trash. Recently fell in love with vinyl again and have around 11,000 LPs and 4,000 78s. In case my wife reads this post, I've laid out about $1,000 for everything, which I think is a great investment. My advise: go pick up a turntable, an old receiver and vintage pair of speakers, sit back and enjoy the music.....C

[Bruinator]

What the heck is Ann Murray and David Soul doing in that collection.

[sionnsar]

Ironic that the creator of the original standard would be somehow involved in one of the most egregious CD-related abuses of consumer trust, no?

Yup. I don't buy Sony anymore. Anything. So far it's cost them a camera and a car radio.

[martin_fierro]

Q: How awesome would an 8-track-shaped iPod be?

A: Very.