CDs obsolete in 5 years?

There ya go Thsalmon,

get some plugs like the people in "The Matrix", jack that thing up to your head and your are literally IN the concert hall.

I was reading abouyt that in Yahoo News.

Lets hope they dont waste this technology by stuffing them chalk full of MP3's. With the amount of data they can hold they should be able to have resolution easily comparable to DVD-A or SACD.

Gotta say, there is definatly something appealing about having a high resolution player that has no moving parts to wear out.

I think something like this has a far better chance to replace CD's than SACD or DVD-A, especially if they use all that space to ensure some wicked resolution. Hell, if they use this stuff to audiophile standards, it will probably replace all three formats.

It would certainly be a practical storage medium, and with that kind of capacity, who knows where it will lead.

Im sure that vinyl will continue no matter what.

Good point bluefin,

Take into account, if you can store a gigabyte of into in a 1cm cube, say the storage device is 10 cubic centimeters, then you got a nice 10 gigabytes.
You can put far far more information on that than you could a CD. im not sure how much data you can put on a DVD or SACD.

The whole point of MP3 is to compress, the only reason to USE an MP3 is to pack alot of songs on a limited storage space. If the storage space is quite large, then the need for compression is no longer there. You can put the music on uncompressed, and probably at rather high resolution.

Its innovations like this that are not only seafood, but have the potential to be the dessert and show afterwards.

more than a CD killer, this might be better called a possible MP3 killer.

everyone recognizes the fact that MP3 sucks in quality, but the convinience makes it worth while for many people in many applications.
Tell them that they can have the same style of gadgets but hold better than CD quality on it, and they will jump at it.

Mp3 just breaks down when something complex is played through it. especially hard rock. When the going gets tough, the symbals sound warped and the guitars sound muddeled.