The end of physical media is neigh

There are a ton of 8 track players for sale on ebay, so CD and blu-ray players should be available for as long as you'll be around.  You probably have more CDs, etc. than you could listen to in your remaining lifetime, why worry?

Hogwash. There are and will almost certainly be used cds and stores to sell them. Every time I go to the music store I see plenty of people buying physical media of all sorts. Mostly LPs but cds too. My Oppo UDP-205 player still works great (just used it tonight) and I imagine it will for a lot longer. 

In around 2002 I started streaming. I also burnt the songs I purchased on CDs. Eventually the CDs stopped playing. I went back to CDs and vinyl and never looked back/ never missed streaming. (Unless we call watching youtube streaming)

Try to buy a composer of the Franco-Flemish school as Obrecht on vinyl ?

I dont want vinyl... It is useless for world music (india-Persia Africa)

I dont want cd.......

The same problem exist for books...

The books i want you will not discover them in most University...

Their cost will be very high in many case...

When i bought the handbook of logic 40 years ago i paid it 80 dollars... Imagine the cost with the inflation calculator...

the 25 books of the linguist that interest me cost 40 dollars each book ...

Do you think i will go with my life without these essential books ?

No ...

Then it is like audio : the solution is studying acoustic...

For the books it is knowing internet...

Life is too short to live without the tools necessary to think ...

i never had the budget to create my audio system  as i dreamed of...

I discover that a very good hi-fi cost peanuts if we learn how to do it...

We must study not buy...

I read the starting post on here with real dismay. I’ll never forget the day that Oppo announced it was ceasing production of its players. Luckily I signed up in time to win the right to buy my Oppo UDP-205 (whew!)

I retain all the LPs I ever bought from 1956 onward, also the tape cassettes, the VHS Tapes, the Laser Discs,the CDs, the SACDs, the DVDs, the Blu-ray Discs and I still have working media gear for them all.

i now stream 99% of the time. All my CDs are ripped and all the many I still acquire, though most of the time they are used because they only need to play perfectly once and that is to produce a rip. I do subscribe to Tidal but only to preview some music I’d like to buy. High res downloads typically sound fantastic!! But they do cost too much considering there is no physical copy..
 

One of the things that really annoys me is that TVs no longer provide legacy inputs for our vintage players!  One of the things that worries me is if I have a drawer failure on my various players. I don’t need them very often, but I like having them just in case. I do wish I could easily rip my DVDs and BLURAYS. Then I wouldn’t worry about my player going down and a replacement unavailable.