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Thread ID: 127051	2012-10-01 22:45:00	The CD player turns 30	pcuser42 (130)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1304455	2012-10-02 05:59:00	Now I feel old. I bought my first CD player and CD in 1987. The CD player was a bargain at $299 for it's day..	paulw (1826)
1304456	2012-10-02 06:05:00	Dire straits brothers in arms	plod (107)
1304457	2012-10-02 06:48:00	The CD player is 30 years old? I hope the first recorder was not too far before or after that, or there would have been a bit of a kerfuffle.	R2x1 (4628)
1304458	2012-10-02 07:32:00	:happybday: Not that I'll miss you when you die :D I will miss CD's when they are no longer available since the alternative is crap MP3 format which is just plain stupid what with the low cost of storage and decent download speeds why can no one offer a .flac service? I have never bought music as an MP3 and I refuse too due to it's crap quality	gary67 (56)
1304459	2012-10-02 07:50:00	I will miss CD's when they are no longer available since the alternative is crap MP3 format which is just plain stupid what with the low cost of storage and decent download speeds why can no one offer a .flac service? I have never bought music as an MP3 and I refuse too due to it's crap quality That is a downside, but one I don't mind too much.	Nick G (16709)
1304460	2012-10-02 19:47:00	That is a downside, but one I don't mind too much. That is the problem right there a lot of people are happy to pay good money for a crap media experience aka MP3	gary67 (56)
1304461	2012-10-02 20:33:00	That is the problem right there a lot of people are happy to pay good money for a crap media experience aka MP3 I would undoubtedly have a problem with the crappy quality if I could afford speakers good enough to notice it :D For a lot of people though, I think mps work fine.	Nick G (16709)
1304462	2012-10-02 20:54:00	Ours was in 1995 - Windows 95 :D (which we bought a Soundblaster CD pack from Noel Leemings). We don't watch much optical media's. I went to uni in 1997 and had a used 486DX4-75 laptop with a floppy drive only, CD was in its infancy where LPT enclosures just couldn't keep up with the speed unless one got a CD equipped laptop. Haven't got Blue Ray yet, our 1999 $1,000 Sony DVD deck broke down a few years ago, probably watched less than 50, now using the Xbox for it. Still have the VCR thou :punk Someone, a few years ago got a Sony Discman from Flybuys :D Got a used Sony Walkman from aunt in the 90s.	Nomad (952)
1304463	2012-10-02 21:39:00	My first CD drive for the PC was a creative labs 2X speed drive that plugged into a soundblaster sound card, all the early drives had proprietary interfaces and commonly used a sound card this way as the interface into the system. Later I continued the trend by getting a creative DVD drive with a bundled Mpeg2 decoder card that could play DVD's without stressing the system (PC's just weren't fast enough to do it in software back then and graphics cards didn't help either). I remember also how all the early CD drives plugged into the soundcard with an analogue audio cable and Music playback was handled by the drive itself. Some games even took advantage of this by getting the CD drive to play the soundtrack music in the background. when I got my first burner it cost more than $400 dollars and I was very protective of it, I had a standard CD drive for day to day use and the burner only got used to write CD's because I was paranoid I'd wear out the laser. My first CDs were 1987 by whitesnake and eliminator by ZZ top, I got them both soon after buying a new Vector research stereo for $2000 on hire purchase. It's easy to remember the year because whitesnake conveniently labelled it for me :) I still have them both and they both still play perfectly 25 years later, a testimony to the robustness of the Media. I remember an early add where the presenter smeared peanut butter all over a CD and then gave it a quick wipe and played it, seems laughable now but it was impressive in the days of vinyl and cassettes.	dugimodo (138)
1304464	2012-10-02 21:58:00	That is the problem right there a lot of people are happy to pay good money for a crap media experience aka TV, radio, newspapers, hansard, . . . . FTFY ;)	R2x1 (4628)
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