USB Cards to Replace Compact Discs?

Whenever the major recording lables allow direct duping from their 'high res' masters... all of them BTW... regardless the genre, life would be great for the audiophile and finding HD music easily and affordably wouldn’t be an issue..

The problem is the bulk of recording sales isn't aimed just at us. We're the minority here. We'll get overlooked over and over again... Or be required to pay a premium for what could and should be commonly available at nominal costs.

90% of the music junkies out there are quite happy with iPods, ear buds, and downloaded 128K compressed music. The whole of their content gets carried with them wherever they go in their purse or pocket.

Remember the tube output stage docking station for the Ipods? They went over like the Hindenburg, dispite the improved sound quality. And modest costs.

The new or next generation as said above has been trained to hold all their music on something the size of a value pack of gum. Even movies now come off the web in HD.

Libraries and collections will soon be more memory than matter of fact. Terabytes instead of volumes. I think the only obstacle then will be the manner in which the music actually gets conveyed.

We might just wind up having to take some sort of storage drive into an outlet and download it onto the drive right then and there… or music selling stores are just going to vanish altogether and T1 connections will be the norm for home networks.

Values have nearly evaporated from society and now society gets to be still more anti social and remote as for few exceptions, no one will even have to leave the house pretty soon.

Some of my friends now, only have to go into the office once a week.

The films “Surrogates” & “Gamers” could well be editorials for future times, than simple fantasy’s.

Ain’t social progress great?

Not in my system; every USB card I have tried won't allow the CD tray to close...so none I've seen will be replacing my CD's.

Blinjim - Exactly, we're minority here. The only reason, in my opinion they even went to SACD, HDCD and DVD-A was to introduce strong copy protection (SACD cannot be copied at all). This is understandable since making CD with royalties costs about $1. Recently 20th Century started selling DVDs (movies) in China at $2 admitting to small profit (now we now what region code is for).

According to RIAA I cannot even make backup copy of my own CD. They not going to win this since more and more people start using (also illegal) servers.

SACD failed partially because of very small demand but also because it cannot be copied for backup or used with a server.

Kudo's to those cyber geeks that have written apps which can extract the higher res audio from all BUT SACD so far.

As intent as they seem to be to keep people from copying and transmitting recorded info there will always be those who can and will figure out a way around things... from what I see though, it's being done on merely a personal level for ease of use, archiving and the now and then share.

I'd think by now they would have explored other viable means of revenue streams like making available high res dupes from the orig masters for those who wish for such things.

I mean they've already got the info on hand, and need now only a means to convey it easily... and oooh... there's that new thingy called the web... and as said, subscriptions.

hey record companies! we want first off quality audio! Can you hear me/us now?

Sucks to be ignored.... huh?

Several studios have been getting the DSD information from SACD's. We've been doing it for HDtracks for almost 2 yr.