Are CD players dead

Simple Solution everyone. Don't make the same mistake twice
with a Computer Audio Download Format Monopoly, as was made
with a CD Audio Format Monopoly (1985). Music Manufacturer's will always be unscrupulous (10-12 Bit CD's)
Without competing Format they will cheapen Computer Audio
Download Format to maximize Profits every time. Eventually
everyone will tire of low quality Computer Audio Downloads.
Save Computer Audio Downloads Format by using competing Format (CD) as leverage to force Sound Quality of Downloads up-not down! Save both Formats or lose both!

CD players are waning heavily in favor of computer audio. CDs themselves will still be around for quite a while until some new higher res music format eventually replaces it (when???).

It will be some time before all music is delivered electronically rather than in some physical format, hard to say when that will happen but eventually it will.

Meanwhile use of computers as the prime source for playing multiple music formats (including CDs ripped to various formats of increasing variable quality) will continue to grow gradually.

If this is the case, Mapman, then you condemn Computer
Audio Download Format to the same exact mediocrate (and
same fate) as CD. Just give it 10 years (same as CD).
Nothing more need to be said if Computer Audio Format is
going to follow in the EXACT same footsteps as CD. You
were perhaps expecting a different inevitable result?
I have a Bridge that I can let you have real cheap.
Competition is the only saving grace for the Consumer, and
Sound Quality! So why do you want to throw away everyone's
ONLY saving grace, and leverage with Sound Quality no less?

Petty,

Yay, you're back!

Get that music server working yet?

I can go to HDtracks and download albums today at higher res than CD if I chose.

What's the problem?

Do you expect some poor schmo in Kazakhstan (Borat say) to have to pay for higher quality recordings than he cares about?

I say let Borat have his lossy mp3s and cheap gear needed to play them. As long as I can have my Lamborghini, I am happy too.

"I have a Bridge that I can let you have real cheap.”

So do I. (Can’t let Petty have a monopoly in the bridge market) :-)