How many years before MP3 becomes king?

Ok Toonsurge I cant believe LP's have died. I guess that means the new turntable and cartridge I bought 4 months ago was a waste of money. Not to mention the rest of my system. Why download music what can I really do with it. Compression, bit loss poor speakers sure I can wire it into my system not a problem. But it will bring out every flaw in the format. Approx 60% of the US is on the internet and we are the richest country in the world. Only 10% of the world population has internet access. As we grow as a world and developing countries emerge what format will we use. Will it be cheaper to buy a cheep cd player and a hand full of CD's or a computer, internet access fees and download fees? 2010 can the CD die. I guess my digital front end should be given a proper burial not to mention all my vinyl.

I guess those small vinyl pressing factories that have sprung up lately are just out of luck. What about the new Stones release that was put out on Virgin Vinyl.

Remember to take the system as a whole.

MP3 will be obsolete by 2006.

already is....

I guess much depends on what you mean as king. Sonically, it certainly is not. I cannot stand its sound.

Mp3 players are enticing because they're new and also because they're so easy. I just purchased a 40 GB iRiver, (similar to the iPod, but better in my opinions.) I'll be away at college next year, and I'll be able to put half of my CDs into a little box that can fit in my pocket rather than toting a portable CD player and my little case of CDs around the campus. Also, I can easily put wav or Mp3 files on my player. Storage space is getting cheaper and in a few years, my 40GB player will be obsolete. By that time, there will probably be players with 10X the capacity of mine for a much more reasonable price. At that point, Mp3 will be dead because there is no reason to use a lossy format when you can purchase HD space cheaply and use wav files.