Are CDs Obsolete? Fate of the Compact Disc
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Are CDs obsolete? Many sources are now reporting that record companies are secretly planning to abandon the CD format by the end of 2012, concentrating instead on online/streaming formats and release CDs as limited edition collector’s items only.
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Compact Disc is 25 Years Old
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Obsolete: Fear Factory: : Music
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Rock on! The compact disc turns 30
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CD-ROM - Wikipedia
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Hipster kryptonite': will CDs ever have a resurgence?, Music
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Language of the Dead
The Long Overdue Death of Retail Compact Disc (CD)
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That Was Then The birth of CD and the death of vinyl
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Compact disc (CD), Definition & Facts
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used and violated for all the emptiness
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DVDs & CDs: What's the Difference? – Legacybox