Comments on: the death of the cd is greatly exaggerated http://rojisan.com/blog/2003/09/the-death-of-the-cd-is-greatly-exaggerated/ This site is currently broken Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pete http://rojisan.com/blog/2003/09/the-death-of-the-cd-is-greatly-exaggerated/comment-page-1/#comment-59 pete Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:51:06 +0000 http://rojisan.com/blog/2003/09/the-death-of-the-cd-is-greatly-exaggerated/#comment-59 I totally agree the CD will live for a VERY long time. As you say, it's pretty perfect for it's primary use, distributing recorded music. The album format works out very well. I don't think it's a coincidence that whether you're looking at the Rennaissance or you're looking at the latest top 40, that a typical "unit" of music fits nicely on a CD. However, I do look forward to the demise of DVD's. That technology was released basically as soon as it got "good enough". Dual-layer has taken it a little further, but MPEG2 has GOT to go. It worked fine on the old 520-line NTSC screens (or larger if you paid enough bucks for a really good line doubler/tripler/quadrupler). But with universal HDTV around the corner, it's time to make some progress on storage formats and take advantage of some of the latest, much-superior-to-MPEG2 video compression formats. Image how good a movie could look compressed with high-end MPEG4 and stored on a 20Gb (or greater!) storage unit. It's a little ironic, isn't it, that the first mainstream digital storage unit is positioned to last decades into the future, while the most recent digital storage unit is already looking a little crumbly around the edges? I totally agree the CD will live for a VERY long time. As you say, it’s pretty perfect for it’s primary use, distributing recorded music. The album format works out very well. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that whether you’re looking at the Rennaissance or you’re looking at the latest top 40, that a typical “unit” of music fits nicely on a CD.

However, I do look forward to the demise of DVD’s. That technology was released basically as soon as it got “good enough”. Dual-layer has taken it a little further, but MPEG2 has GOT to go. It worked fine on the old 520-line NTSC screens (or larger if you paid enough bucks for a really good line doubler/tripler/quadrupler). But with universal HDTV around the corner, it’s time to make some progress on storage formats and take advantage of some of the latest, much-superior-to-MPEG2 video compression formats. Image how good a movie could look compressed with
high-end MPEG4 and stored on a 20Gb (or greater!) storage unit.

It’s a little ironic, isn’t it, that the first mainstream digital storage unit is positioned to last decades into the future, while the most recent digital storage unit is already looking a little crumbly around the edges?

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