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In Reply to: RE: My Last CD Player.... posted by AudioSoul on October 31, 2011 at 08:59:49
Deja vu.
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That is very funny. You are right!
"Last turntable" is not the same as "last CD player". After the last turntable dies one can no longer play LPs. After the last CD player dies, one just pops CD's into a computer.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
...That I've lost my confidence that computers will have Optical drives much longer.
So your post was timely for me but not comforting, even if currently largely true.
New media seems to mostly benefit the producers and sellers, not the consumer. And of course they love player obsolescence, especially if you allow me to include computers as "players" of software applications.
I'm finding that e-books are a rip-off of epic proportions unless you do a lot of traveling. You really own nothing, they are neither reliable nor fungible and totally dependent upon the continuing availability of special hardware or software with no warranty. They are grossly overpriced for what is essentially a uncertain term rental. Worse yet, they are decreasing the viability of "real" books. What are the odds of being able to read the book or listen to the music thirty years hence? Yes, at my age the odds are good that I won't care, but still and all the principle holds true. For instance I own a book that is still very useful (A 1943 edition of Terman's Radio Engineer's Handbook) that I was lucky enough to find used decades ago. What are the odds that this would be the case had it been an e-book? Would every word, formula and chart be crystal clear if I just don my $5 reading glasses? And non-volatile to boot baring theft, flood or fire...
Regards, Rick
It is certainly possible that computers will be sold without optical disks and some portable ones definitely are. However, given that optical drives cost under $50 and can be connected various ways (e.g. SATA, USB) I don't think this is significant. After some number of years, this situation may change, but this will be gradual. In any event, given that CDs don't come with DRM there will always be the possibility of ripping them and copying their info to more up to date media.
I agree, DRM is evil and it only works to the extent that it is backed up by Fascist laws that make reverse engineering illegal. It turns out that you can't even pass ebooks throughout one's family. In light of the 1984 debacle, were ebooks to replace printed books then I would anticipate some future event amounting to a world-wide burning of "The Library of Alexandria". I won't buy SACDs because of their DRM.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
We're talking the unknowable future, remember.
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"After the last CD player dies, one just pops CD's into a computer."
Play it in another computer? Brilliant!
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