CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:48 PM

Play a CD on a lap top? That might work for rap or rock but they just can't handle the full range needed for Beethoven.
Everything sounds like a fly under a shingle.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 01:32 PM

And have you seen the range of Vinyl record players now available? L.P.s dead, no way!

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:52 AM

Argos have a choice of about 5 different palyers at varying prices, I bought one for my husband in April and it works fine!

Kath

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:48 AM

mp3 player:CD player:Victrola

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:47 AM

This is baffling, CJB. I searched on Amazon, and they offer scads of portable CD players.

Gee, maybe I better order one before my portable cassette player wears out.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:31 AM

Still available

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:28 AM

Oh - and on my netbook I can't turn the wifi off and so am not allowed to use it on an aircraft.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:27 AM

"Maybe you are supposed to play them on your laptop - what do you mean, you haven't got a laptop?"

I have a netbook with wifi that does not have a CD / DVD drive. The additional separate unit is bigger than the netbook itself - and actually doesn't work properly.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:25 AM

Computers play CDs and also transfer their tracks to portable MP3 players, tablets, and iPads, and phones. The problem is not that nothing plays CDs, it is that a DEDICATED device for that sole purpose no longer makes sense.

A

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:22 AM

Not that I've bought one recently, but there a plenty of CD players still; its just the walkman-style are obsolete and the fact that the CD capability is hidden inside something else. I would lay odds, for example, that Tottenham Court Road could have sold you a portable DVD video player that also plays CDs.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: Lester
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:21 AM

You don't use a "CD Player" to transfer CDs to mp3s, you need a CD/DVD drive in your computer.

Subject: RE: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:20 AM

Maybe you are supposed to play them on your laptop - what do you mean, you haven't got a laptop?

Subject: CDs are Dead / Gone / Exist No More ...
From: ChrisJBrady
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 11:15 AM

With incredible rapidity CD are becoming obsolete - well players anyway.

We are planning a really long-haul flight soon and I wanted to replace both of my 'Walkman'-type CD players which have gone u/s.

I thought I'd get one in 'Duty Free' at T5 Heathrow - but NO - "there's no call for them now" - I was told.

Then over the weekend I tried the full length of Tottenham Court Road including the Sony Centre, and places like John Lewis, HMV, Maplins, Dixons, Currys, etc.

But No - "they don't make them any more" I was told every time I asked.

So I said "look - HMV are FULL of CDs of all types of music etc., how do I transfer any CDs I buy onto an MP3 player." "Er with a CD player I guess - but we don't sell them any more."

All I could find were boom-buster CD / MP3 music centres - 100 times the size of a Walkman. There's no way I'd even be allowed on an aircraft with one of those.

So guys and guyesses - folk singers, musicians and storytellers - oh and indeed archivists - beware that CDs (or players) like the proverbial Monty Python parrot - are gone, deceased, exist no more.

As a corollary I ask what's the point in financing, recording and trying to sell a CD any more if the customers can't play them?