What happens when the CD factory closes?

Pitman, which has 9,365 residents and is about 17 miles southeast of Philadelphia, is home to one of Sony's two remaining U.S.-based CD-manufacturing plants--until March 31. After that, the company will shutter the facility and 300 workers will be out of jobs. A Sony spokeswoman recently cited an ailing U.S. economy and sagging interest in physical media as the reasons for the closure. A longtime employee sized up the situation more succinctly for CNET last week: "The CD is dying."

I don't think I have purchased a cd in 8 yrs?

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CD's will be history, like the LP record, in the near future.

 

wait a minute...cd's are going out? I guess I better go buy one then just to see if the cd player in my truck actually works.

 

What is this CD thing you speak of??

 

Does anyone remember the laser discs for movies?? That died out quicker than an other form of media player

 

Even quicker than DAT? Another failure from Sony right behind betamax.

 

What's a CD?

 

What's dat???

 

Digital Audio Tape

 

i still buy cd's on a regular basis, I refuse to buy anything off of I-tunes for the simple reason that if I am going to purchase something, I want the physical cd, not just something on my computer that is probably going to eat itself on a bi-yearly basis.

And I am a 26 year old highly tech-savy person, in case someone was going to accuse me of being old and stuck in my ways

 

Oooohhhhhh

 

Isn't everything saved on iTunes not the computer??so if the computer takes a shit,you still have it?

 

no you have to phisically back up your music

 

Really??? Shit I better get on that.do I have to back up the apps?? If that's possible

 

Get a portable hard drive , they are dirt cheap for huge storage

 

x2

 

I have one for all my daughters pics.

 

I use one to back up everything on my laptop and there is room to spare .

 

My old computer recently had to be replaced due to the motherboard going out. I took the H.D. out of it and use it for backup now. I use to use Carbonite and Mozy.