Vinyl divine
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By Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines–Is the CD obsolete?
With digital music downloads — both legal and otherwise — fast becoming the preferred medium for obtaining music, it’s beginning to look like the days of the CD are numbered. Some prophets of techno-doom are predicting that within the next three years, CDs will all but disappear as consumers switch to MP3 players and other hard-drive media, or the higher-capacity DVDs.
When that happens, unthinkable as it might have been just 10 years ago, the vinyl LP would have outlasted its “successor.”
On the brink of extinction when CDs first emerged in 1982 with its promise of “perfect sound forever,” the 12-inch long-playing phonograph record has, against all odds, survived and, in some ways, even thrived.
