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In Reply to: RE: I'm curious - howcum, with the vinyl resurgence posted by kavakidd on April 10, 2015 at 13:29:53
Vinyl has never, completely, gone away. We will be saying the same thing about CD.
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Has vinyl not gone away the product introduced to kill it , the CD , is now dead ... Yep
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Not sure about that, the cd offers zero at this point other than the fact you can buy them cheap.
Are you sure it is zero? How about a physical medium that is transportable and practical, instead of a digital file that can easily be mistakenly lost or deleted? There is a reason that million- and billion-dollar industries still back up their systems and data to physical media on a daily basis. It's not cheap but they do it for a reason.
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I remain very close to zero on this. All of your points are better arguments against the CD than for it, IMO. Transportable? I can carry hundreds of CDs on a thumb drive. I can much more easily lose a CD than a digital file- as long as my system for storing my files is decent. And if it isn't, that is my fault.
Big businesses are not backing up on physical media, and they haven't been for a while. In fact, they are quickly moving away from housing any data at their sites at all. Backing up to tape drives, DVD, etc on site are all examples of terrible IT practices that are completely antiquated and considered bad practice across the industry.
Who said anything about backing up "on site"? Ever heard of offsite backup storage? I'm fully aware of cloud as it's my business, but I hate to break the news to you that there are still big businesses that do offsite tape backups.
And transportable can mean different things than you carrying a thumb drive around in your pocket protector or fanny pack. The transportable I was referring to is the fact you can easily transfer ownership or possession of said media from one person to another. I don't observe my girlfriend sharing her downloaded books or music that are sitting on her iPad with anybody, but she sure passes around the physical media books and music within our circle to share. That ain't zero, Mr. absolute. There's a real value there.
that requires it's own stage with equalization etc.
FWIW - as the owner of some 5'000 LPs I pretty well aware that it hasn't gone away.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
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