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Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today
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| Thursday, October 21, 2010
| MG Siegler
Posted on 10/21/2010 12:38:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:38:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: Swordmaker; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ShadowAce; Las Vegas Dave; martin_fierro
CDs have been under pressure for a over a decade — number one, they became trivial to reproduce; number two, their price didn’t come down appreciably even with the advent of the DVD; number three, music downloads, mp3s and other compressions, including piracy in said format; and number four, BluRay, which one of Sony’s people said would be the last optical format.
I still like reading the little booklets, and miss gatefold LPs. Don’t you? ;’)
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:42:33 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
Where did floppies go? I still have boxes of them
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:42:58 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Playing by the rules only works if both sides do it!)
To: SunkenCiv
Not so fast. Until movies and music no longer come on CD/DVD, that won’t happen.
Optical discs aren’t just for software. Lots of people keep an extensive backup music or movie collection on disc because it’s portable and universal. Others like to author their own DVD movies or CD music discs. For those people, a computer without an optical drive would be useless.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:44:56 PM PDT
by
FLAMING DEATH
(Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
To: mad_as_he$$
Hey, in the right time and place, you'll be able to name your price! ;') I found an unopened 25 pack the other day, and have no idea where and when I got 'em. At work the other day I pushed some other stuff supply in the locked supply lateral, and voilá, there was a couple of sealed 25 packs. The CPUs we've had on the floor for, hmm, about seven years now don't have floppy drives.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:45:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: mad_as_he$$
Where did punch cards go?
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Rangers leading the ALCS 3 games to 2)
To: FLAMING DEATH
Oh, and for the price, they’re still a very reliable form of backup, too. For a few bucks, you can backup gigs of information and not worry about the media being damaged or the data being overwritten.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:46:27 PM PDT
by
FLAMING DEATH
(Are you better off than you were $4 trillion ago?)
To: SunkenCiv
Yup. I still prefer to purchase music on CD because I like having artwork and liner notes.
To: SunkenCiv
sony bluray last optical format I do believe you're right.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:46:42 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
To: dfwgator
I sure wish they would bring back 8-tracks.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:47:01 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
To: SunkenCiv
H&R Block was selling their “Tax-Cut” software on a thumb drive rather than a CD at least a year ago.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:47:16 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ever have a CD or DVD lose all of its information because it was taken out of the computer at the wrong time, or for no apparent reason?
Neither have I.
The diskless society will probably be a lot like the paperless society.
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I still miss the days of LPs, when they had goodies that came along with the albums, like ELO’s ‘Out of the Blue’, that had a cardboard ELO Spaceship.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:48:22 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Rangers leading the ALCS 3 games to 2)
To: Frantzie
I miss Reel-to-Reel. I was so adept as a kid at spooling the tapes, my dad would call me in to do it for him.
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:49:47 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Rangers leading the ALCS 3 games to 2)
To: dfwgator
I remember that one; one of my cousins had Out of the Blue on vinyl.
To: dfwgator
Hey I have Blu Ray punch cards.
To: SunkenCiv
"DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media."
DVDs and Blue-rays are media.
To: Question Liberal Authority
Oh “diskless” sorry, never mind.
To: FLAMING DEATH
Optical discs arent just for software. Lots of people keep an extensive backup music or movie collection on disc because its portable and universal. Others like to author their own DVD movies or CD music discs. For those people, a computer without an optical drive would be useless.Exactly!
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:53:35 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: dfwgator
Where did punch cards go?I still have a few of those. :-)
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posted on
10/21/2010 12:54:10 PM PDT
by
knittnmom
("Mision Cumplida! Chile")
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