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Portable CD players see a resurgence in the UK
Engadget —
... Unless you have some unexplained obsession with gadgets of yesteryear, you probably haven't been paying close attention to how many brands of portable CD players your local retailers have been stocking. According to Currys over in the UK, however, it's being pressured ...
Portable CD Player Sales Up 50%
Gadget Lab —
... amazing. Side by side with even high-bitrate MP3s, the uncompressed CDs are clearer, sharper-sounding and just more real.
Sadly, even after my continued claims that optical media is dead, there still isn't a real non-CD alternative for audiophiles. Maybe one day, as internet connections get faster, we'll be able to download uncompressed WAV files, but until then we're stuck with convenient but inferior MP3s, or DIY CD ripping into lossless formats.
Portable CD players make a comeback [Telegraph] Photo: 彡erlingsi/Flickr ...
Are you getting a portable CD player for Christmas?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Portable CD players are making a comeback, according to the Daily Telegraph, and not just with the DT's readership, which is known for its, ahem, older profile. The story says: ...
Portable CD players are making a comeback this holiday season
Obsessable News Feed —
... U.K. retailers like Currys are stocking up on portable CD players like the Sony Discman to meet an increase in demand -- about 50% -- over last year. With record labels like Atlantic Records seeing sales of CDs gradually eclipsed by revenues from online music sales, you might have thought that it's only downhill from here for the 26-year old medium, but apparently the slowing economy is keeping some folks from moving on. According to the Telegraph, this may be because those folks are still not comfortable with the internet, or may not even have access to it at all, but the ...
Portable CD player sales going strong
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... still do not have the internet in the U.K. The music players have proved so popular with shoppers that John Lewis, the department store, has started stocking the gadget again, four years after it originally phased them out.
Currys, the country's largest electrical goods chain, says that sales have increased by 50 per cent compared to last year and industry figures from market research firm GfK show that 45,000 portable CD players were sold in October alone.
Portable CD players make a comeback [Telegraph.co.uk]
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Portable CD Players Making a Comeback?
Anything But iPod —
... where people ask for MP3 players that are easy to use for people with little technical knowledge such as parents and grandparents. It's hard to recommend something that's "easy to use" for people that haven't or have barely touched a computer. It's very interesting to see that this results in an "old" technology coming back to life. Maybe if SanDisk is successful with their SlotMusic system we'll see move to memory card based music listening for the older generation.
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