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Hey Wired!

I agree with Zentec. The reason the optical disc has existed so long is that it is dirt cheap for a storage medium that is portable. This is an irresponsible statement by Wired Magazine. Are they saying by 2012 or 2007? All of us in this forum can predict that someday there will be a new storage medium and probably have 95% confidence in the statement. Most corporate business plans span 5yrs at most so I don't think I would go throwing out my optical disc plans over the next 5yrs.

I wonder what the neighborhood bandwidth looks like that allows everyone to watch a high definition movie that releases that day and will be watched at 7pm that night. What about the download limits? Will those go away in the next 5yrs?

reply to zentec
mmmm.... lets see if a ups truck hold lets say 1000 4gb dvds and has to travel 50 miles at 60 mph... how much bandwidth does it carry between the two location?

(1000 * 40 / ( (50 / 60) *60*60) = 1.3 gbps

I get 24Gbps.

Assuming a red disc is 9GBytes(dual layer) which is about 72Gbits.

Blue High def will be 50Gbytes(dual layer). So the UPS bandwidth(holding to your assumptions) will be 120Gbps.

UPS is looking better all the time.

reply to zentec
DVD's are not dead the Technology goes on besides we have had more than one Medium to store Movies/music on.VHS/CD/DVD/audio tape/Zip Drives/ so why can't Harddrives and DVD coexist?

I don't see a day where only One survives.Car Stereo's lack Clarity they have plenty of Bass although Upper Midrange and extreme High's have a lot of Improving to sound anywhere near a original Master Recording.I hate MP3's they sound terrible you can't polish a turd.Lets see we have DVD-Audio, SCCD and Dolby Digital 5.1 which sounds great for Movies although 5.1 is not a good Music Formst.As Harddrive Technology advances size wise Harddrives will be a lot more practicle than DVD's including Blu-Ray.
Harddrives playback what quality you put on them.

Younger Generation seem to care less about Quality Sound they will take Quanity over Quality nd it is up to Us older Generation to show them what Good Music Sounds like.I have LP's that sound better than a lot of CD's.Size and Music Studio's needed a New Medium where the Public would Buy a whole new Collection and it worked.CD's have less noise and more Bandwidth although some of the Music is Sterile to me there is no Soundstage and no You are there in second row expierence like you can get with the best LP's.Circuit Boards have something to do with this also the old Marantz Tube Amps and PreAmmps sounded a lot better to me.

I am not afraid of change I welcome Harddrives Big enough to hold all my Music that sound like Original Master Recordings .We are losing the Real Professionals that could run a SoundBoard and make sure that the Album sounded as good as it possibly could.We have Mixing Boards on Computers and Programs like Cool Edit Pro and there is a lot better 24 bit 192 khz Sampling rate Chips like the old Burr-Brown one's.I just hope that sound Quality doesn't die out like Classic Cars did .Now Cars are back in Vogue.

I will do my part to make sure Younger Generation gets to heara the difference between bad and good Sound Quality.When i listen to Music it is the Quality of Sound that makes me want to hear more of it.New Music is not like it was back in the 60's/70's .I hope Music doesn't die out to mediocricity.

Custom Hi-Fi Stores need to draw them in to where they can hear the Great Sounding Systems like Aragon/Krell/Mark levingston on the High-end there is cheaper Equipment that sounds better than the 500 Dollar Best Buys/circuit Citys.
I can take 300 dollar Klipch Speakers,Velodyne Subwoofer and a 500 Dollar Carver Amp with a Adcom Preamp with a good Cd Player from NAD and enjoy Music the way it was intended to Sound

While I don't agree all mp3's sound like polished turds I will say that there are other formats that blow them out of the water quality-wise. Vinyl is an inferior recording medium no matter how you slice it (more fragile, less frequency response, lower signal to noise ratio), but as someone else said CD media won't turn garbage into jewels. Sounds like you prefer live recording setups, which do in fact lend themselves better to warm vinyl audio than crisp compact disc digital.

Vinyl records still has their uses and thankfully are still being made. I'm sure CDs will be around for quite a while too.