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Physical Media Extinction

Postby cactuspete » Thu Jan 24, 2013 8:11 am

Physical media going the way of the dinosaur?
No more books, tapes, or discs? What am I going to put on my bookshelves?
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby panamint_patty » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:14 am

Reading computer and smartphone screens in bright light, like outdoors in the direct sun doesn't work for me. Give me a book and a lawn chair and I'm good to go. Electronic devices just don't cut it. Besides if you go to the beach, the sand is likely to damage a laptop or an e-reader. But even indoors, the experience of reading paper books is much more enjoyable than that of reading off a screen.
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby sandman » Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:52 am

DVDs could soon go the way of VHS
I still have records and cassette tapes and all that old stuff. A friend of mine even has 8-track tapes.
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby surfsteve » Sat Jan 26, 2013 12:24 pm

panamint_patty wrote:Reading computer and smartphone screens in bright light, like outdoors in the direct sun doesn't work for me. Give me a book and a lawn chair and I'm good to go. Electronic devices just don't cut it. Besides if you go to the beach, the sand is likely to damage a laptop or an e-reader. But even indoors, the experience of reading paper books is much more enjoyable than that of reading off a screen.
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I always like to use Readpease so all I have to do is listen to the text. Most of the time I am listening to one thing and reading another article. I also listen to it on my headphones while I am cleaning house and doing other stuff. Here is a list of text readers. Reading bar is also pretty good but it only works in Explorer and not with Firefox so I quit using it and went back to the old readplease 2003
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby cactuspete » Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:01 am

Does this mean that I have to throw away my old 8 Tracks of Deep Purple, BTO, and Led Zep?
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby CactusHugger » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:33 am

Can iTunes dominate another decade?
Do people still want to own copies of the music they listen to or do they only care about access?
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby pcslim » Wed May 01, 2013 7:35 am

CactusHugger wrote:Can iTunes dominate another decade?
Do people still want to own copies of the music they listen to or do they only care about access?

Call me a dinosaur, but I still own over 100 record albums. I listen to MP3s most of the time, but I just can't throw away the albums!
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Re: Physical Media Extinction

Postby CactusHugger » Fri Jun 28, 2013 7:12 am

Top 5 soon-to-be obsolete technologies
Some of these predictions are pretty likely, but a couple aren't quite as likely as this guy seems to think. But he smuggly shares his opinion with us nevertheless!
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