20-01-2011, 05:05
gryphon Wrote:CD is quite lucky.............there are just so many machines around that can read them. Most "silver disc spinners' have backward compatibility and so we will not face a problem of what can we play these things on.
You just said what I was about to say.
Yes, contrary to cassettes that became obsolete because the players changed to CD, the followers of CD are DVD and Blu Ray, which use the same format as CD. So before our house are emptied of any machine capable of reading a CD, I think it will take a serious amount of time. Computers would need to progressively begin to remove any Discs players making place for only USB and other flash devices, and before we consider our Blu Ray player obsolete to the point of putting it to trash, time lies ahead.
Probably CD companies are aware of that and for the moment the threat of CDs is more about internet downloading than physical players limit/obsoleteness.