The end of physical media is neigh

I’ve been trying to decide about buying a Magnetar UDP 900 and therefore Googling reviews, etc.  The LG article cited by Eric popped into my Google feed yesterday and I just thought that I was being fed the usual algorithm feed, but surprised to see it here.

  According to one story I saw the major manufacturers-Sony, LG, Panasonic-haven’t come out with a new BRP since 2018. The new ones have been Magnetar and Reavon.

  I would have thought that the Pandemic, which drove people to reexplore their Audio systems, might have driven some new development, but once the Covid restrictions were lifted I suspect the people that neglected audio went back to their old habits and demand fell.I listen to SACDs, Blu Rays, and my DVD-A collection, as do many here, but we are the dinosaurs 

I really hate this. Even though I’ve ripped all of my cds and SACDs to a NAS, I’d still have a hard time getting rid of my collection. I’ve thought about it and it makes sense considering the huge amount of space it takes up. Then there’s the Blu-ray’s and dvds. We purged quite a bit a couple of years ago and luckily I’ve haven’t missed any of those but when it comes to my music collection, I just can’t do it, and my albums, they are completely off the table! 

I’m all streaming now but seriously considering the painful cost of adding vinyl. They  cant take that away from me easily.  However my x wife did in fact easily take all my vinyl- so there’s that. 
 

I popped in a CD recently- man do those sound like crap. Sadly I have hundreds of the darn things and can’t bring myself to jettison them.  

The day is quickly approaching where the only thing we can physically hold in our hand is when we're standing in front of a white porcelain fixture.

Not in my house.  And I’ve got an oPPo and a 4k video player that’s barely been played, not to mention some 300 films on dvd, Blu Ray, and 4k.