BS: the CD is 25 years old today

Subject: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 01:02 PM

200 billion sold apparently

and some that shouldn't have been - discuss.

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 01:12 PM

aren't YOU willing to start the discussion?

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 04:54 PM

Happy birthday.

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Barry Finn
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 08:45 PM

CD's can be considered weapons, they are not allowed in many of the country's prisons. They're afraid that the inmates will display bad taste in music & brake the CD's & use the shape edges to cut up those that sound flat.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 09:44 PM

I always KNEW music should be recorded on doughnuts, instead!

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Barry Finn
Date: 18 Aug 07 - 10:07 PM

Great Bill, we could eat music, talk about internalizing our music.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Alice
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 09:42 PM

Wow. Time flies. Seems only yesterday.
But then, my son is 20 today. Wow. Time Flies. Seems only yesterday...

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 09:46 PM

Seems only yesterday I got my reel-to-reel state of the art contraption. Got my first CD player two years ago. I don't see switching from VHS any time soon.

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Aug 07 - 11:45 PM

I keep reading articles about how the CD is outmoded and will be replaced soon. I dunno. It's a nice size, and the sound is (or can be) as good as anyone could possibly want. Why not keep it around for another fifty years?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Mr Red
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 07:49 AM

When MP3 machines of Gb capacity (solid state) the question of medium will be sorted. The problem of retrival changes somewhat.

Then there is jpg storage and then movie.

Parkinson's Law was universal. Work expands to fill the time alloted for it's completion.

roads, storage, spending, pub opening hours - it all fits.

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 09:25 AM

Remember when they drove a tractor over one and it still played perfectly (Tomorrow's World, BBC TV)?

I had dreadful trouble getting a CD to play at the weekend... a single cat hair was the fault.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: the CD is 25 years old today
From: Cats
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 10:01 AM

I'm just catching up with cylinders!