The market share for CDs is indeed shrinking and the market for Vinyl is increasing, however the market for Vinyl is still far smaller than that for CDs. What you will find is that streaming and download will replace CDs.
Manufacturers have replaced the aging CD player with touch-screen media centers that offer streaming services, hands-free Bluetooth® and can play digital files from portable USB drives. Over the years, CD sections in stores have been shrinking as less and less people buy CDs.
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However, CDs are still extremely versatile. When used as a CD-ROM, you can put not only music, but photos, video and other computer data. Don't expect all CDs to vanish entirely, as they will still be used heavily in the next decade, especially with computers.
Last year, the number was 33 million. Yes, we still had Black Friday and the whole holiday shopping period to go, but when the calendar flips to 2024, CD sales will still see another year-over-year decline. Meanwhile, vinyl sales are up almost 24 per cent over 2022, despite prices being ludicrously high.
Do CDs Sound Better Than Spotify? The short answer is yes, CDs are higher quality than digital files. CDs have a much high bit-rate of 1,411 compared to streaming services like Spotify with an average MP3 bit-rate of 320kb.
Sales for physical media may have declined over the years, but they are not dead. There are still some benefits of owning media in a physical form. You won't have to wait for something to come back on streaming. You won't have to worry about your server being down if you want to watch something.
Sure. There's already better technology available (even in the consumer space; see UltraHD Blu-ray Disc). In the sense that studios will stop making them? Probably not any time soon.
Some retailers have announced plans to move away from physical media in the coming years. In October, Best Buy confirmed that it will end the sale of Blu-rays and DVDs in early 2024, both in-store and online.
Absolutely! Although streaming and digital music are the most popular ways to listen these days, lots of people prefer the collectable nature and superior sound quality of CDs. This demand means that the vast majority of CDs are still worth something - and the amount you can make soon adds up!
Adding tunes to a digital library means you won't have to schlep physical CDs. Plus, you'll have a digital backup should the physical disc get damaged. You can easily do so by ripping, or copying and importing, the music off a CD onto a computer. It's legal, provided you own the CD and are ripping it for personal use.
There's nothing like listening to your favorite vintage EP, live recording, or special edition on a disc format. CDs offer a mix of quality, affordability, and convenience, the perfect middleman between vinyl and streaming.
"Once solid-state memory became affordable, MP3 players and iPods proliferated," Pohlmann said. "That was the death knell for CDs because they had all the advantages of the Compact Disc but were even smaller and even more convenient." So the lifespan of the shiny silver disc may be waning.
As Greg Milner writes in his book Perfecting Sound Forever, the compact disc became “the fastest-growing home entertainment product in history”. CD sales overtook vinyl in 1988 and cassettes in 1991.
CDs may have waned in popularity over the past couple of decades due to the onslaught of illegal MP3 filesharing, then downloads, then streaming. However, to go extinct as you suggest would require the complete cessation of production. That has not happened.
The successor to the 4K display resolution is 8K resolution. 8K resolution has four times the number of pixels as a 4K display while 8K TV has a resolution of 7680 x 4320, so an 8K screen will be able to show images with much more detail and clarity than a 4K TV. The first 8K TVs were introduced at CES 2019.
A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc has a much higher capacity than a standard Blu-ray disc which allows it to store a movie with Ultra HD resolution. Normal Blu-ray discs look great, but the maximum resolution is 1920 X 1080. A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc has a resolution of 3840 X 2160. That's 4 times the amount of pixels.
First, the product had bad timing. Blu-ray launched in 2006, offering higher quality video and audio than DVDs; then, in 2007, Netflix launched its initial online streaming service. Online streaming was the way of the future, and Blu-ray's demise was only a matter of time. Insufficient marketing also played a role.
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Blu-rays and DVDs are primed to have their vinyl moment — “old school” physical media surging in sales despite a predominantly digital landscape. Why? Film and TV have never seemed so fleeting as swaths of titles become memory-holed due to an endless sea of options and companies that are finding any way to save a buck.
The main one being that you can't really “own” a digital file, and you can lose them under certain circumstances. (I've seen several instances of people who lost their ability to view the movies they owned digitally.) With physical media, I own my movies and cannot lose them under any circumstances.
For example, a CD uses a 16-bit signal that's sampled at 44.1 thousand times per second (kHz). The bitrate for such a file would be 1,411kbps if it wasn't compressed in any way. However, some MP3 and other compressed digital files are able to get away with much smaller bitrates by compressing the audio.
The HiFi setting offers CD-quality lossless FLAC files, meaning they are 44.1kHz/16bit. Master quality audio files are 96kHz/24bit FLAC or WAV files. If a song is labeled as MQA on TIDAL, it means that the artist authenticated it themselves, but not all songs are available in this high-quality format.
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a musical file format that offers bit-perfect copies of CDs but at half the size. It is compatible with many phones (including the iPhone -- with an app), portable music players (PMP) including the PonoPlayer and hi-fi components.
