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Replace Your Music....Again

Posted by Hemos on from the newer-better-faster dept.

sethadam1 writes "I was not at all surprised to find that experts are predicting the death of the compact disc in as little as 5 years. This article over at Ananova suggests the next format of music will be little fingernail-sized cards. As cool as these sound, is anyone else worried that sneaky industry folks might try to distribute all new music in DRM'ed WMA files?" Yeah, this description sounds basically like bigger Magic Gate, that wonderful situation where you can pay more than normal to get DRM. Update: 11/13 16:45 GMT by H : As RobertB-DC pointed, this is sort of a dupe - see our previous article.

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  1. What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This article isn't about the death of compact discs, it's about that new storage medium they've discovered that was already reported about. Death of compact disc is just Ananova's bullshit spin on the topic.

    Jeez, maybe Hemos should RTFA before posting.

    1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And what's further amusing is that many of us are glad to see CDs go the way of vinyl as a distribution method for music. But why do I want to buy yet another physical format for my music? I want the digital data. Nothing more, nothing less. Preferably in a digital format that allows me to make my own CDs, load the file onto portable devices (containing either hard drives or flash memory), and play it on my computer (which has the "out" from the sound card headed straight to "in" on the amplifier). I don't care how you transfer the data to me, whether it's CDs, memory flakes, broadband, telegraph, or telepathically... just so long as it gets to my music server where I can use as previously described.

  2. wierd dimensions by PhuCknuT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a new generation of fingertip-sized memory tabs with no moving parts.

    Scientists say each paper-thin device could store more than a gigabyte of information - equivalent to 1,000 high quality images - in one cubic centimetre of space.

    So they are fingertip sized, paper thin, and a cubic centimeter? I'm having trouble forming a mental image of this...

  3. Except by mcc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe they could put DVD-like things on there - special features, commentary, 5.1 surround sound. It might actually make buying these things worthwhile.

    I noticed that when, for awhile, they tried to do this exact same thing under the name "Enhanced CD-ROM", it was more or less a commercial flop..

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