The Death of CD

Do you still use CD's? Technology enthusiast that are old enough to remember the date the first CD's came out can never agree on a date so just like in the article "After 30 years, is it time to bid farewell to CD's" we are going to say October 1, 1982 on that day Billy Joel released 52ND street. It was the first CD to be released on the market. On that same day Sony released the CDP-101, the first CD player to hit the market. It sure has taken awhile but CD's are finally dying on the market. 

I believe it already has to a certain extent., how many people do you know or see that walk around with CD players, i know that i don't in fact i have about 12gb of music alone on my iphone. That's all you do see people with these days, ipods, iphones, androids, tablets, and various mp3 players. the average person now downloads their music from various sites including itunes, zune, beatport and amazon. there is only a few things that places like that lack and that is DRM free and excellent music quality. i still buy Cd's from time to time if i want to make a rip of it with almost perfect quality, and if i buy a CD i can burn that on any computer i want!

I also believe one of the biggest industries that use Cd's are video games, no they do not use the average CD-RW or DVD-RW but a CD is a CD weather it is Blueray or any other type. that doesn't mean that the video game industry is perfect either, they still have their faults and one of the biggest competitors to console games is steam. buy it download it anywhere and never have to worry about scratches. more than likely that is where the next generation of gaming is coming to anyways. Movies is also a big CD industry, i personally don't know anybody who buys there movies through itunes or amazon and i also don't. If i want to buy a movie i will buy a physical copy at walmart. 

No matter how big these industries are the matter of the fact is that the cd aspect of them all is dying, it wont be around for much longer. Gartner in the last half of 2011 predicted that the 15billion$ market would fall a huge 5billion$ in 2015 so no matter how much you like them they are going just like VCR's.