The CD is Dead Long Live The CD?


The president of EMI is proclaiming the death of the cd.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?siteid=mktw&guid=%7BBA27DA69-B92A-473A-AF46-0CBE9DFA59EE%7D

Is he right? Or, like Mark Twain, is news of its demise premature?
kinsekd
It's very sad to me, all this business of record stores closing, cds dying. How can downloads possibly be as attractive as a physical disc of some sort? :(
One can only hope...

The medium has always sucked, but vinyl still seems to be going strong... Didn't the pundits say something about the death of vinyl a few years ago???
Yes, sometimes change can be hard. Thanks to the Internet there will always be a nich market for us types.

The really sad part is, where are all those Kids who used to work at Tower Records going to find jobs, where the boss lets them hang chunks of metal from there faces.
Post removed 
sony is already planning blu ray audio to replace sacd, and all 'but sony' are going to peck away at other media.....only 15% of the music business is downloaded, so its gonna be a few days before the cd goes away.