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Did you mean to answer "certainly" on this question? And that the progress being made is for streaming to catch up with physical media for quality? Just got confused a bit.

Speaking of retro physical media making a comeback, this one's completely insane... https://news.avclub.com/the-hot-new-archaic-music-format-is-3-5-floppy-disks-1827320189 "Of course, these thin plastic disks can only hold about eleven and a half minutes of highly compressed music, but that...

If I can't legally pass them on, then my only option is to do with them what I'm instructed to do with the feature film screeners I receive as a WGA member during award season after viewing, and destroy them. Sigh.

If you want to unload your CDs, and you know you're not going to make any money, where is the best place to give them where they will best appreciated or used? That's honestly my main concern. I've already consolidated the stuff I want to my own recorded CDs (almost 100 I will keep forever)...

Try scrolling through an iPod through more than 100 albums for the one you want. On an iPhone, you can jump to the first letter of the title, but it's still a hassle and a half than just stacking the CDs you want for a road trip and plucking the one you want as you go. But then we are not the...

So you have to order a CD player for a new car, it's not standard anymore? No buying direct off the lot. So be it.

I'm reluctant to buy a new car anytime soon because they don't even have CD players anymore. Plus, I had some custom speakers put in my 2011 Toyota Camry way back when because factory sound just don't make it. Sure I have iPod and iPhone with iTunes music library (including more than 80 custom...

Am I the last person still buying CDs (and making mix tape CDs with lossless audio sound)?

Haha! Talk about a Freudian slip. The end of physical media DOES threaten my well-being!

I think we need to re-name this threat The Nostalgia Channel, but I have enjoyed tuning in to it. Sigh.

The passing last week of Russ Solomon, founder of Tower Records, was a stark metaphor for the passing of the age of physical media. Going to record stores to leisurely browse through the racks in anticipation of some latest release or new discovery was not only a major source of pleasure, but...