I am hearing everytime on this forum that CDs and DVDs are allready dead. How can this be possible? We all have a lot of CDs at home and DVDs too. How many people have only MP3s and BluRay discs at home? Or only hearing to th internet radio? I think they are still in minority and will be for a long time. I like my CDs turning on the BeoSound9000 and will listen to them also in the near future. I consider MP3s more like addition at home, but as a primary media for my car radio or when using BeoSound 2. But when I like to listen to a quality music then I still buy CDs and also DVDs as my BeoVision 7 32'' has no built in BluRay player (also not the MK IV version). So I think for the near years to come CDs and DVDs will still live and are not dead as many here are persuading.
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CDs / DVDs really already dead ???
I dont think CDs are dead, especially DVDs! Who's got a Blu ray player in their car, or on their PCs/macs.
Also, its not like Digital media has even arrived properly at B&O... sure the BS5 is nice but it hasn't matured yet to the point that B&O is about to drop support for CDs.
The amount of hi def audio (96/24) from HDtracks.com is just now starting to get good. They just got HD conversions from Sun Records ( Johnny cash, Roy Orbison etc.).
Does BS5 do FLAC?
I expect this'll end up an inverse of the "what's the point of mp3 ...." thread!
I expect this'll end up an inverse of the "what's the point of mp3 ...." thread!
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So the contributors will progressively become more and more polite and more accommodating of the views of others? 👍
Graham
There's probably a difference between what is stated and what is heard ... 🙂
A few realities. CD sales are nosediving - truly headed for the ground. So are DVD-sales. That's a useful indicator.
Why? Because these discs are containers for the content - they're not the content. If you want to use a record player, you need a record for your stylus; if you want to listen to the music that used to be stored as a digital file on a CD, you have lots of options - in exactly the same quality, or even better.
If you want, you can become a customer of HD-Tracks, and download your favorite music in higher resolution than on the CD, with access to all the info that was on the CD-cover.
The quality a CD offers is not dead, it is still around, just with greater options for anyone wishing to access that quality, where we once only had the CD as a medium for the file. (And this also goes for DVDs, of course.)
And, miraculously, we can get even better quality than CD, if we think that's important - and using the internet as a means of accessing music, we can get hold of recordings that are no longer available in any bricks&mortar store ...
Just as I am still playing LPs on my Beogram 4000, I'm also free to keep playing my CDs as much as I want. I personally prefer to keep them as a physical back-up of the music I've bought and transferred in lossless format to a harddisk. There, it is conveniently available to me through a large variety of playback options - and should something ever happen to the harddisk, or to a particular file, then I just take the CD out of the box where it is in safe storage, and transfer the music file from it to the harddisk, one more time.
Very practical, and safe. And there's nothing "world-ending" about it, but it has not been a good thing for the value of cd-players, that has to be admitted. They've plummeted in value ... even B&O, when launching their BeoSound 5, decided they wouldn't equip it with a cd-player, which should tell us something. (I personally feel they made a mistake - they should have given it a CD-slot, and automated the ripping of music from it to the harddrive ...)
Streaming of digital content, together with the possibility of purchasing such content through the net for storage on local media, is taking over.
I expect this'll end up an inverse of the "what's the point of mp3 ...." thread!
😂😂😂😂
So the contributors will progressively become more and more polite and more accommodating of the views of others? 👍
Graham
Yes, this will be the Bizarro-version of that thread.
One interesting thing - we're seeing a resurgence for vinyl, and the second-hand market for vinyl is taking off in a wild way, both for statement vintage turntables and for the records themselves. People are paying fantasy prices now for vinyl records with the proper heritage, collecting them as you would collect wines. That's because the content and the medium are inseparable, when you use the medium for playback on a turntable - and because trendsetters have made vinyl fashionable again (House, Mad Men, etc.)
That's not going to happen for CDs ... they'll just keep becoming more and more irrelevant as a medium for the files they once were alone in conveying.
I expect this'll end up an inverse of the "what's the point of mp3 ...." thread!
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I used to have an old series landy... whenever I tried to turn the engine off...
1.) Come to a complete stop
2.) Neutral, hand brake on
3.) Jump out, run to the front, pop the bon and pull the coil lead out of the distributor
I am sure that DVDs and CDs will stick around for some more years, 5 at least.
But digital media will play an increasing role and thats why a proper video and music strategy is important.
The BS5 to me is a start. I don't think it is selling much though, maybe they can re-ignite with a 2 way remote. Even though for me apple lossless and gapless playing is what I am waiting for, I know if they fix that it won't do much for sales.
In principle BS5 is what I expect them to deliver, for video I don't think though it is possible to define what will be required.
Netflix, Amazon and Apple streaming service may will probably be game changer.
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