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.

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