CD Audio

Does anyone think CD will make a come back of sorts like vinyl has? I have been reading online and this bloke was saying that CDs (sales) will still be around in 30 years time, his main reasoning for this was that people still like collecting music and like being able to hold it in their hands and seeing their collection of albums just like vinyl records and also the sound quality is still vary good compared to a lot of downloads and streaming sites. What I think he was saying was that looking at your music collection on a screen was not the same as seeing in a rack. I know I like showing my music collection and being able to hold it in my hands. Most of us on this forum play and collect vinyl but to me it's not the same as a CD collection vinyl as something about it. I have more CDs than vinyl so I still have a need for a CD player, plus I have a lot of CDs that I just can't get on vinyl and looking on streaming sites they are not on them as well. I don't hold fully by his reasoning but I do think he has a point. I'm also not sure about CDs sales being about in 30 years time. But saying that they did say vinyl was a dead format and that has made a big come back so you never know? I'M JUST NOT SURE it'll be the same for CDs

I think some of you are missing the point (sorry) what this man was saying was a format as a physical product something you can see and show off which you don't have when streaming or as a digital file, something you can say this is my music collection and let a friend or someone browse your collection of VINYL or CDs. We here on this forum are all about sound quality that's a given, we would not be here else. I collect books and watch's besides my vinyl and CDs. I do like to look at them and say I own this. I don't have to play, read or wear  them it just gives me pleasure in just looking. I would not get that by looking at a screen.

ICL1P wrote: Fatmangolf wrote: The little booklets inside the CD cases are informative and I do read them Your eyes are that good? Mine aren’t.