Is the CD on its way out?

Sony recently announced that it will cease production of floppy disks by March 2011. I haven’t really used a floppy for a decade now. Come to think of it, I haven’t really used a CD-R for the longest time too.

The last time I remembered I bought and burned a CD-R was when I needed one for my car. I got my iPod hooked to the car stereo but sometimes I forget to bring it along so I thought having a CD-R in the player should solve the problem as it will always stay there.

But in this day and age where portable storage is provided by flash drives with capacities much higher than the usual 670MB of a CD+R and DVDs are cheaper and very accessible, the good old CD might not have enough reasons to live by.

Okay, maybe the music CD still has the needed demand but aside from that, I don’t see any other better use of the CD. Anybody out there still have their CD collections intact?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

22 Responses

  1. Avatar for Kor Kor says:

    uhmmm…SSS still uses floppy disks. I need to buy floppy disks because the computers at SSS can only read files from floppy disks (at least that’s what our secretary says)

  2. Avatar for lalaru lalaru says:

    i usually buy portable hardisk or flash drives, at least i know the lifespan is a lot longer :)

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