Subj : Re: floppy disks
To : Adept
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 30 2025 01:15 am
On 29 Apr 2025 at 08:05a, Adept pondered and said...
Ad> bo> Maybe something similar will be reinvented again, or come back, the w
Ad> bo> thet vinyl has come back, and that music CD's are kind of coming back
Ad> bo> or at least, people are saying they're coming back.
Ad>
Ad> From my understanding, vinyl records have come back because it gives a
Ad> different listening experience, whether with the audio or the various
Ad> tactile aspects of handling records.
Ad>
Ad> I think, with music CDs and DVDs, it's more about ownership, and the
Ad> fact that streaming does not offer this, and the industry keeps giving
Ad> examples of where things disappear.
Ad>
Ad> Not that I have any good way of getting data for these assertions. But
Ad> vinyl has been trending up for years, and CDs have only just begun
Ad> increasing again, for whatever that means.
Ad>
It is quite surreal to walk into JB Hifi (A music, electronic store in Australia, the only real place to buy new music/DVD's left in store), and see vinyl again. I walked into one store, they had vinyl, but no CD's anymore.
They phased out CD's but had racks of vinyl.
From the videos I saw about CD, they mostly mentioned sound quality, that they don't dissapear, liner notes, and a bit about ownership. Some talked about getting original CD's, before the remaster where they make it loud or "correct" things or autotune Freddie Mercury.
