Mark Cuban made some great points in his post yesterday. His statement: "I cant remember the last time I bought a CD Player of any kind, nor can i think of a reason why I would." made me think. I buy a lot of gear, gadgets, etc. but I too can not remember the last time I bought a CD player. In fact, I had to go out to the family room to see if I even had a CD player connected to the main entertainment system.
Surprisingly, I do. A Denon DCM-340 six disk changer. I'll bet it has been years since that thing has been turned on. I then started thinking back to the last time I played CDs. I remember recently, converting my CD collection from MP3 to Ogg Vorbis but I only used the CDs as source material and did not listen to them. I have purchased both SACD and DVD-Audio disks but they play on the Pioneer Elite DVD player. Maybe those count? Both cars have CD players but I just plug the iPod into them.
Ah hah! On RV trips, my wife and I listen to audio books on the CD player in the truck! I suppose I could download the books from Audible but I can not stand their subscription model.
Still, if CD players went away I would not miss them a bit.