Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead?

Posted by behnamoh on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:03PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by fsflyer on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:42PM (#29832331)

No. Just used a CD-R to transport medical images between two different implementations of the Cerner healthcare medical records system, because that was the easy way.

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by rzz3 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:52PM (#29832471)

Ah, yes, the industry that still uses fax machines in 2021 :)

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by yuppie_scum on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:22PM (#29832075)

Yeah of course. Streaming rules the day

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by meristohm on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:16PM (#29832737)

I regret giving away my CD/K7 stereo; I miss being able to pop in an album and play it. Sometimes it’s nice to set limits. That said, there are upsides to putting enough of my CDs compressed into .opus onto an old Android.

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by retrolaptopfan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:42PM (#29832337)

Nope. My MAM Gold and M-DISCs are going to live for a while yet. And people still buy CDs and DVDs. Sometimes it’s nice to own things instead of renting your life.

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Re:Ask HN: Is CD/DVD Dead? by jonny_eh on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:16PM (#29844941)

I believe 2021 was the first year where vinyl sales surpassed CD sales, since CD sales took the market.

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