CD-player will soon bite the dust as DVD mania keeps growing
Posted on 08/12/02 18:53 by Dennis                             
CD-player will soon bite the dust as DVD mania keeps growing

Home CD-players are loosing their spark and are slowly falling prey to the growing popularity of the DVD-player. This news will of course not come as a surprise since DVD-players are getting cheaper and can function as both a movie and a music disc player:


Last week, among other hot promotions for the official start to the holiday shopping crush, Wal-Mart flaunted a $48 DVD player while Best Buy Co. Inc. -- the No. 1 U.S. specialty consumer electronics merchant -- said it had an even cheaper DVD player at $39. The first electronic device to fall victim to the unceasing DVD rage was the video cassette player.

Analysts and retailers say consumers are also increasingly losing interest on stand-alone home CD players since the equipment makers are now opting to build all-in-one DVD machines to cut costs. Some video gaming machines such as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2, can play DVDs as well as compact discs.

But with the music industry in the doldrums and Internet piracy seemingly unstoppable, consumers have little reason to continue spending on stand-alone CD players, analysts said. Even though CD-player prices have been falling just as fast as Hollywood has been churning out its blockbuster movies on DVDs, very little is seen saving the CD player from biting the dust.


The DVD-player has had an explosive growth since its introduction in 1997. It's estimated that DVD-players have made their way to about 30 percent of U.S. households. According to analysts that makes the DVD-player the fastest-adopted technology in recent history.

Source: Reuters

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By GrefdigGloner, Sunday 08 December 2002 20:39
For me a dvd player without the option to record directly what is broadcasted (like a vhs player) is crap. Gräfdig P.s: And I said FOR ME Wink
By Hypnosis4U2NV, Monday 09 December 2002 06:36
Hypnosis4U2NVWell look what its competeing with? VHS and CD? Store alot more info with better quality at the same size..
By Guest, Monday 09 December 2002 09:19
GrefdigGloner - you'd better get yourself a Philips DVDR880 or 890 then! I know where you can pickup an 880 (which can even be made multi-region with a handset hack) for £370 including VAT and carriage. What a bargain! Where? www.srtl.co.uk Smilie
By Guest, Monday 09 December 2002 09:33
Youed have to be pretty serios about copying tv programs to go to DVD , right now its hardly practical, the old VCR is fine for general TV taping.
By temo, Monday 09 December 2002 10:55
Doesn't everyone just Tivo their old shows now?
By oratonastick, Monday 09 December 2002 13:30
DVD-players are getting cheaper and can function as both a movie and a music disc player
Except when you have been buying copy-protected cd's from e.g. Sony or BMG of course, which will simply refuse to work on your DVD-player. But hey, don't worry, the solution is right there! You can simply buy the same album another time on DVD-audio later on. That way you are even helping those poor record companies-executives' children from having to starve to death! puke
By Seán, Monday 09 December 2002 16:30
SeánSomeday, there will be one box below the 'TV' or what ever is used to display the picture: A PC Smilie At present, with the exception of beginner/novice users, the PC can do just about anything with TV such as record, playback DVDs, display TV, tune in Radio, play CDs, etc. (assuming you have the right hardware). All one would need some day is just the PC, a monitor/projector/HDTV, Speaker system and some portable media player for traveling with. ;9
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