Surfing the web today I found an interesting article at NME, which has reported results of a recent survey: It seems that CD discs will die in 5 years:
According to the survey, published by mobile phone nextwork 3, 85 per cent of under 24s believe that downloading music can help save the planet by reducing the amount of packaging, waste, and carbon emissions involved in producing and transporting CDs to shops.
Even if the ecological point of view is certainly correct, I'm not sure that this survey can be reliable, because all downloaded music must be stored in some place, and very often this place is a CD disc.
Moreover, people under 24 is not a reliable sampling of the entire population, and I'm sure that there are many people here at CDFreaks that will not agree with this survey 😉
In my opinion CDs are still very good media, and in many cases CDs proved to be more reliable than DVD discs. What concerns me is that CD manufacturers could take too seriously such surveys and stop CD media production.
