What will become of my beloved CDs?


I have nearly 2000 CDs (DVDA, SACD, etc) and am very fond of them, or at least the music that is on them. However, it seems that music distribution is going to someday soon be totally on-line through downloads (True? When?). So, when most all of the music on my CDs is available in higher-quality on-line downloads (with artwork, I'm sure), what will become of my CDs? Will they be the shiny-silver equivalent to 8-Track tapes? Or, will they become a novelty and collectable? Should I seel them ASAP?? Any economists here???
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Showing 1 response by jjwinterberg

I'm not so sure about the hard disc thing. A DVD holds between 4 and 20 Gigabytes of information ... so if your collection was all in high resolution, than you might have 8,000 Gbytes, a substantial hard disk. Now as technology marches forward there might be such a device but then there is the issue of back-up. I for one will want some form of back-up so that when the hard-drive takes a dump I won't be downloading for ... well lets see with a 1 megabit per second data connection. Um 8 Tbytes would take 64 million seconds, only a little over 2 years. But maybe our high speed access will be better or maybe we won't want high resolution multi-channel audio.

Lots of unknowns but I think your collection won't be obsolete for a while (I hope so for my sake as well).

And you know opnions are just like something else ... everyone has one ... for what it's worth.

JW