Would vinyl even be invented today?

It's 100 year old technology that peaked over 20 years ago already.

NEw records are being made but prices are high and quality control questionable. Nothing major new in site, though prices for new records and capable players continue to go up and newer alternatives get better and cheaper. So there you go.

I bought my turntable back in teh 80s to preserve my investment in records at that time and that has worked well. I still buy old vinyl in good shape on teh cheap from time to time and an occasional collectors Item that I must have for a premium, but if I was not an old guy who happened to colelct a lot of records over the year, I would not bother any more frankly.

I think it a bit delusional to believe there is ANYTHING perfect about vinyl record playback, but it does not really matter as long as one likes the way things sound.

BTW, which part of the record is more perfect, the beginning or the end? They are not the ame so cannot be equally perfect. IT's a fair question then. :^)

"Works for HDTV"

How many guys who think digital is inherently inferior are willing to give up their HD TVs and go back to the old analog tube crap that preceeded it?

I hooked an antenna up to my old portable analog TV with one of those inexpensive video d/a converters. The picture on my old analog portable TV never looked so good.

Can't work for audio though of course.... :^)

Terabytes of digital data on an analog record....now there is some weird science.

Cover art is an lp strongpoint. On the digital front one can see read and learn more about music or artists of interest these days as the graphical user interfaces of software controllers continue to evolve and integrate with content and other apps via Internet. So much is possible there already. My squeezebox controller app runs on tablets and provides links to artist album and track info on the allmusic site Wikipedia and others. With my Amazon fire box streaming hi res audio via toslink to my systems dac the display of album art on my hdtv is about the size of an lp cover. Still nothing physical to own and touch though.