Watch the rise and fall of the nearly 30 years of the CD in 30 seconds.

[onehandle]

'If you liked our ten year recap, you'll love this. Each pie shows the revenue contribution from various formats, 1980-2010, based on RIAA revenue figures. If you want to see it again, just wait a few seconds for the animation to start over.'

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/081611thirty

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Great. I kept saying...

...'record' in class for years, and the kids got confused. About a year ago I started to remember to say 'CD'.

[onehandle]

3. I taught myself to say 'album,' since that connects to our youth and their digital download world.nt

[catabryna]

2. Cool pie chart...

where'd you get it?

[onehandle]

4. Digital Music News...

...and thanks for saying something. Somehow I left the link out of my OP. I added it.

[Major Hogwash]

5. Wow.

This makes me feel really old.

[begin_within]

6. I never knew cassettes had that much market share.

[onehandle]

7. Massive. And pre-recorded cassettes sounded Terrible.

Went straight from LPs to CDs, myself.

I wish I had kept all of our LPs. We have about 300 or so.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I suppose it shows the desire for portability - walkmans, car cassette players and boomboxes

and that quality doesn't matter that much to people (which the poor standard of many headphones continues to show).

I started buying LPs just as cassettes overtook them; and gave up and bought a CD player when it became difficult to find new releases on LP (1992?)

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. If you had good equipment, cassettes were fine...

Dolby, high-bias, etc.... only the slow tape speed was their major drawback. Recording studios were using 15x tape for mastering.

[Ready4Change]

8. Never even SAW my old 8-tracks.

:(

[sfpcjock]

10. Very cool.

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