Is it worth buying a CD player?

[London Calling]

Or am I better off buying a good DVD player?

Recommendations, advice etc would be welcome.

LC

 

[Safeway]

Doesn't a DVD player show films and a CD player play music?

Bit like asking whether you should get a dog or a horse to go in your fishbowl.

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

A hamster

 

[Cian]

Decent CD seperate will always be better than a DVD player for normal audio CD's - at least, my Denon beats any DVD player, including my quite snazzy JVC.

 

[1066gull]

I done a whole essasy on this.

Conclusion

It is all very well improving storage devices as technology moves on, but staying with one digital format can prove problems. It is a lesson that the dramatic hi-tech equipment we use today will be tomorrow’s junk. It’s something 81-year old Sid Islam has learnt to his cost. 15 years a go he wrote his autobiography on a 1980’s computer. Trouble is now he cannot access them with the hopelessly outdated floppy disks as his new computer cannot read them.

When the market was first established in 1970, the 8-inch floppy disk was seen as a method of choice for storing digital data. There is still millions of the 8-inch floppy disk in the world, but to get the information off it – you need a computer who can read it. Fast forward to today, and we have the compact disc, it is hard to imagine that it will be as obsolete as the 8-inch floppy disk. But that day can be coming sooner then we thought.

Unless you can find a system that can read old formats of digital data, it will become lost forever. A specialist service that has a collection of practically prehistoric working computers from the 1980’s allows them to take all the digital data from old formats, and bring it back to life in new digital hardware. We cannot rely on just one digital format and put them away in a neat pile so you can read them in the future. Technology moves fast, and to keep data from being lost, you have to keep copying it to new storage devices.

It’s a problem that is only going to get worse and one that is getting harder for businesses. For a cemetery, it is crucial that there are detail lists of information of people who are buried. Some of those lists are found on 1960’s index sized punch cards and it has taken time and money to transfer the data from an obsolete format onto modern computers. The challenge is to find a way to store this information that is readable, not just now but for years to come.

After millions of dollars spent on research, the advice that is given from the boffins, geeks and nerds is that we must constantly keep transferring all our data if we want to view it in years to come. That is it, until someone somewhere comes up with a better solution.

Thats my conclusion!

 

[Cian]

Thats COMPLETELY unrelated.

And looks like you nicked it from the Readers Digest.

 

[1066gull]

Its based on DATA STORAGE.

And I based my research from Google searches and the BBC. One TV video that was very useful which Im trying to find.

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

Thats COMPLETELY unrelated.

And looks like you nicked it from the Readers Digest.

I was just going to say the same!

Formats are being standardised, and I suggest that all CD-sized media in future, including the new HD formats (blu-ray etc) will be able to play CDs and DVDs. (even though they'll require more than one laser)

I had problems in the past with old media, as I've got a nice collection of LaserDiscs. What a worthwhile investment they were!

 

[1066gull]

Will you lot stop saying I stole it. That is extracted from a little of my coursework which I spent FOUR/FIVE hours on.

And I like a debate guys.

I disagree. The new DVDs are going to hace 4 layers and will all together to be one terabyte big. You will need a differnet drive to the current DVD and CD. The CD maybe out longer as it can share the same drive as the current DVD, but I doubt it can share the same drive with the HD

 

[Cian]

Its based on DATA STORAGE.

And I based my research from Google searches and the BBC. One TV video that was very useful which Im trying to find.

Thats not what we're f***ing talking about, you chisla. Twat.

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

Is this KS3 coursework?

 

[Cian]

Is this KS3 coursework?

If thats what they do in whatever special school he clearly goes to, probably.

 

[1066gull]

I edited my post for a debate.



*If you can understand my grammer

 

[Bwian]

I done a whole essasy on this.



Thats my conclusion!

I done a whole essay

 

[Cian]

essasy, none the less...

Remember, kids, Word's little paperclip bollox won't be there to fix your mistakes in the A levels.

 

[disgruntled h blocker]

Getting back to CD players, i'd say the choice of unit is dependant on what you listen to, and then connect it accordingly. I say this because DVD players (especially connected digitally to amp) can sound far too clinical, whereas a CD player with a good DAC and nice interconnects can give much warmer sound.

So buy a CD player if you're serious about listening to music...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Will you lot stop saying I stole it.

STOLE it! STOLE it!

 

[Djmiles]

STOLE it! STOLE it!

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

Thief Thief Thief

 

[fatboy]

I edited my post for a debate.



*If you can understand my grammer

Grammar.