Ten years from now, will more people be listening to vinyl or CDs?

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  1. readandburn

    readandburn Active Member Thread Starter

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    I think we can all agree that neither of these will be the most popular format in ten years (or possibly today), but which of these two physical formats will be used by more people in 2020?
     
  2. therockman

    therockman Senior Member In Memoriam

  3. sherrill50

    sherrill50 Well-adapted Melomaniac

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    Not to threadcrap, but you might as well ask this question for 78's and Edison cylinders. Physical media will be the preserve of niche collectors.
     
  4. motionoftheocean

    motionoftheocean Senior Member

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    vinyl, since CDs are already irrelevant
     
  5. Greg1954

    Greg1954 New Member

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    CD's, still, although it's use will have declined precipitously.

    The vinyl revival will vanish, it will go and shrink, I'm right and will be proven right.
     
  6. Dennis Metz

    Dennis Metz Born In A Motor City south of Detroit

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    You wish....:cheers:
     
  7. Dennis Metz

    Dennis Metz Born In A Motor City south of Detroit

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  8. readandburn

    readandburn Active Member Thread Starter

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    That's the point!
     
  9. motionoftheocean

    motionoftheocean Senior Member

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    have you checked cd sales lately? are you familiar with that whole mp3 thing?

    explain why people will be buying CDs in larger quantities in five years
     
  10. 2trackmind

    2trackmind Forum Resident

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    CDs. But I really think for the most part, instead of listening to the actual CDs, people will be ripping them to their computer hard disk to put on their iPod or music servers.

    Let's face it, when it comes to music these days intangibility is king to most people.
     
  11. blind_melon1

    blind_melon1 An erotic adventurer of the most deranged kind....

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    I'm people, right?

    :D
     
  12. nbakid2000

    nbakid2000 On Indie's Cutting Edge

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    Digital will always beat vinyl.

    It depends what type of digital they will be listening to and it won't be CDs.

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  13. Roninblues

    Roninblues 猿も木から落ちる。

    I should live at least that long, so both.
     
  14. appledan

    appledan Resident Rockist

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    I think in ten years Blu-ray audio discs will be the de facto format. CDs will be a relic of the past.
     
  15. noname74

    noname74 Allegedly Canadian

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    have you seen how many deluxe sets have come out in the last month- if the physical media were as dead as you insinuate I dont think they'd be making these things.? Bowie, McCartney, Springsteen, Hendrix, The Who etc....I'm not saying that CD sales will suddenly return to what they were in 1990 but they won't be irrelevant in only 5 years.
     
  16. noname74

    noname74 Allegedly Canadian

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    Not sure about that...DVD-A didn't take off when they were the 'big thing' that Blu Ray is now...so making Blu-Ray-Audio work will be just as difficult.
     
  17. motionoftheocean

    motionoftheocean Senior Member

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    the deluxe cd phenomenon exists for the same reasons movie and television studios resurrect ancient franchises for so-called reboots: desperate attempts to get people to spend money on fading media. the music industry acknowledges that it can't compete solely on the basis of new music sales because the vast majority of what they're selling "new" is absolute rubbish. their hope is that repackaging some stuff people seemed to like a number of years ago will guarantee some easy sales now. and, for the most part, they're right. but reissues aren't a sustainable business model.
     
  18. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    CD's. I like records myself, but let's face it, there's too much from the 80's on that isn't being issued on vinyl.
     
  19. wareagle69

    wareagle69 Forum Resident

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    Based on the way the questioned was posed, between CD and vinyl, CD will be used by more people. The market as a whole will likely be dominated by digital in some form other than CD.
     
  20. PacificOceanBlue

    PacificOceanBlue Senior Member

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  21. 905

    905 Senior Member

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    CDs
     
  22. rjp

    rjp Senior Member

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    definitely CD's.

    the vinyl fad will be long over and people will grow tired of the pops hisses, ticks and scratches.
     
  23. TopForty

    TopForty Active Member

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    I'll be dead, but I'm going to mark this day on my calendar and come back from the dead and see if I was right. I will announce my answer 10 years from today from the other side in this very thread.
     
  24. Schoolmaster Bones

    Schoolmaster Bones Poe's Lawyer

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  25. johnnypaddock

    johnnypaddock Senior Member

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    I don't see it as a fad. It's a small piece of the market right now, sure, but it seems to be the only physical media that is actually growing.

    I'd say in ten years, CD's will still be more popular, but in the long-term I think that more listening will be on LP than on CD.
     
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