Is the CD dead?
By timebandit •
I have just seen an item on the BBC News Channel that Ford are no longer going to fit CD players in their cars. They will use USB and aux inputs instead. So is this the end of the Compact Disc?
Below is an extract from Wikipedia showing that the CD started production in 1981, but became a consumer item in 1983. That's 28 years!!
The first CD to be manufactured at the new factory was The Visitors (1981) by ABBA.[14] The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.[15] Early the following year on March 2, 1983 CD players and discs (16 titles from CBS Records) were released in the United States and other markets. This event is often seen as the "Big Bang" of the digital audio revolution.
Mp3 player is better.... Or FM 97.5
Or Takar songs on cassette ;)))
Yeah Baldrick there are still a few manufacturers doing that. I don't understand for what it costs, whey every car ever produced now doesn't have USB or at least a AUX input.
Hi
using CD id old age technology. in the age of harddrive and usb I feel using cd is spending unnecessary money.In fact i did not use DVD for almost more than 3 years now its all usb hard disk and led TV. best of the technology with no headache of storing cd dvd.
My 2010 Patrol has a freekin Tape deck in it!!!
not only for the music industry but for our ears as well... quality of music from cds are still much better than to those music that we download...
Sure... :)
lets exchange :)
TC... not very much into latest ones just have a few of Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and some thumping bollywood or remixes for those times...:)
i still use cd in my car. i like it that way.i remember the first cd i bought, it was matchbox 20 "yourself or someone like you". i still think that's the best album ever. i had to steal some money from my mom just buy that cd.but, imo, cd tech will phase out sooner or later as the technology progresses so fast these days and storage gadgets are becoming more cheaper. but it will be bad for the music, or let's say, entertainment industry because of the accessibility and ease of transfer and copying of the materials.
I still have my cd walkman =P...
HGL, That is so true...I need latest Indi songs, U got one?
don't say that! I am failing miserably to download itunes onto my ipod and have to go back to my CD's...
I'm still using my eight track .. Great sound ...
HOw sad :(
TC...lol... u bought just the first one and then kept exchanging it ...:)
My first(self bought) Cd was songs of passion (Comiplation of Peter Gabriel, Nusrat fateh ali)
I dont own any music CDs anymore, I listen to music in my car though, all on MP3s. I think shuffling an mp3 is much easier then flippin in and out a bunch of cds. cds can get scratched start skipping, break, etc. and they are just annoying to me anymore.
I dock my iPhone the second I get in my car, and that is what I play my music from. No CD required.
maybe it's their end for the new generation cars... but for most people, they still prefer to use a cd player car stereo/head units... especially to those people who loves to listen their music from their car with audio setups....btw, i remember my first cd as well, it's Out of Time by R.E.M...
I think CDs will phase out slower than the previuos storage devices, because all software/music companies will have to make write protected devices,
but its end is very near!
BTW my first CD was Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield in 1984, and my last CD purchase was a year ago; Supertramp's greatest hits.