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Old 12-07-2016, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in America
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Some of us aren't children that grew up with MP3 players. We enjoyed our vinyl and now CDs; we like looking at the art on the cover, and reading the lyrics.

And they are not a dying technology. The audio CD perhaps, but not the disc itself.
CDs are very much a dying way of selling music. Have you been to a store recently? The CD section is tiny now. Best Buy used to have a MASSIVE CD section...larger than many record stores. It's gone! Digital music is here.....has been for quite some time.

When were you ever able to play vinyl in your car?
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Old 12-07-2016, 12:35 PM
 
Location: Brackenwood
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Question: Why don't manufacturers/artists retail CDs now on thumb drives instead of (or in addition to) CDs?
Because it's still a physical medium that has to be physically delivered to the customer who then has to transfer it to whatever playback device he's using. What killed the CD was not necessarily a new file format, though mp3s and the like were also useful as a space-saving measure back when storage was much more expensive per byte than it is today, but the fact that it could be delivered electronically and be delivered directly to the customer's primary playback device.

It's unfortunate that electronically delivered music is still highly compressed when there's no reason for that any more what with storage space getting ever cheaper and more compact and high-speed internet being nearly ubiquitous, e.g. it does't take an hour to download a single uncompressed song over a modem any more.
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Old 12-07-2016, 12:37 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Can stream video from phone too. Many have hdmi and other video inputs that people use to hook up video games and such.
Yes but I challenge you to find a family that doesn't have a stack of DVDs & Bluerays the kids will want to watch, and they're not going to go out and pay again for a digital copy
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Old 12-07-2016, 12:37 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Fire up those old battery-powered boom boxes, folks!
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When were you ever able to play vinyl in your car?
Google is your friend. back at ya.

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Old 12-07-2016, 12:43 PM
 
Location: New York City
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Fire up those old battery-powered boom boxes, folks!


Google is your friend. back at ya.
"Hey America, A Smooth Chevy Ride so Your Vinyl Won't Skip!"
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Old 12-07-2016, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Wasilla, AK
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My 2014 BMW i3 doesn't have a CD player or AM stereo tuner.

I know the new 2016 Honda Civics don't offer a CD player even as an option

Does your BMW have AM mono? I find it hard to believe that a manufacturer has eliminated AM altogether. At least in cars designed for the American market.
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Old 12-07-2016, 02:11 PM
 
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Yes but I challenge you to find a family that doesn't have a stack of DVDs & Bluerays the kids will want to watch, and they're not going to go out and pay again for a digital copy
Granted we had the incentive of not wanting to haul them all cross country. But prior to our latest move we burned all of our cds and dvds to a hard drive and got rid of them all. All digital now. And most of the time we don't even use those opting for streaming options instead.
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Old 12-07-2016, 02:29 PM
 
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Fire up those old battery-powered boom boxes, folks!


Google is your friend. back at ya.
Those are 45's....singles....And how many cars had them? Far fewer than cd players.

Good grief 1980 called along with John Cusack....you still have your 1980 battery powered boom box? Boom box... Talk about a dated item and sounding like someone who is dated.
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Old 12-07-2016, 02:31 PM
 
Location: NYC
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How ironic the guy that died in a Tesla auto-pilot accident was watching a movie on a portable DVD player.
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Old 12-07-2016, 08:11 PM
 
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They don't have cassette players or 8 track players either.

The 2003 Regal I owned had both cassette and CD. LOL
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