Are CD players goig the way of the 8 track,and the cassette?

I expect the most important factor in the viability of the format is the availability of the mechanical transports. Being a mechanical device running at very high speeds they all fail eventually. Since the computer market offers optical disc readers in fewer and fewer devices the incentive to keep making the spinners is decreasing. Most CD players that die do so because the transport fails and there's no available replacement. It's just a matter of time.

Oh they are definitely going away, not like 8 tracks or cassettes, more like turntables did. Enjoy the music

So like turntables, more and more high end CD players at shows, the very best sounding gear will be said to sound "CD-ology" and CD will take on an air of acknowledged if unspoken superiority and become fastest growing segment in audio. Hollywood movies will have the star putting on a CD to show his superior taste. Like turntables.

Right.

interestingly it also seems there are more new CD Player releases lately,  after a lull of a few years...

Right.