this was on the news today

BBC News - CD player production ends at Linn

Linn Products has become the first manufacturer to announce it will give up on CDs from the start of next year.

Instead, the niche company will focus its production on equipment for digital streaming.

The firm, which makes systems costing from

Still making turntables though

Why don't Linn sell needle drops of their top of the line equipment,

or would that eliminate vinyl/equipment sales in place of downloads?

probably because linn doesn't have the rights to release needledrops?

I meant of their own stuff.

Linn Records

But if you have the original studio masters in digital form, why go through the DAC->ADC process, unless people like artifacts of that process.

Of course, needledrops of other peoples material is a different matter.

They probably wouldn't try to get the rights either, instead of seeking the rights to the needledrop, it seems to make more sense to seek the rights to the master copies to put into digital formats.

EDIT: Grahame says it better then I.

I meant of their own stuff.

Linn Records

Having the rights to release records is not the same as having the rights to releasing needledrops.

Having the rights to release records is not the same as having the rights to releasing needledrops.

Isn't the rights issue one of the reasons that lead to the failure of DVD-A,

given that they had to obtain separate rights for each of the 2.0, 2.1, 5.1 mixes and different bit rates/depths?

Moving on.

With the mainstream demise of the CD player, how long before a CD revival,

where enthusiasts seek out of print discs, hunt down out of production players, engage in obscure rituals before listening, and enthuse about the superiority of their chosen medium

With the mainstream demise of the CD player, how long before a CD revival, where enthusiasts seek out of print discs, hunt down out of production players, engage in obscure rituals before listening, and enthuse about the superiority of their chosen medium

Try 8 years ago.

The thing is, the computer will almost always have a CD drive in it, so they're not completely eshewing CD's, just the transport.

Isn't the rights issue one of the reasons that lead to the failure of DVD-A,

given that they had to obtain separate rights for each of the 2.0, 2.1, 5.1 mixes and different bit rates/depths?

Yes.