When ever I see dj's that are local to the area i'm in they seem to have alot of vinyl. Cd's offer a huge convience to international dj's who fly alot. I doubt they care about the cost since at that level you don't reely have to buy records. To me nuthing beats the sound or feel of vinyl.

I agree a more intersting question would be when will cdj's die. They are very popular now but are being surpased by what can be done with laptop. I think the future will be things like the Maven, serato, final scratch, and mixers like the x one 3d or any of the other mixers out there that interface with a computer.

I personally skipped getting cdj's and went with serato. To me its more fun with 1200's and record to touch than jog wheels and butons.

allen

Who knows when vinyl will die out? It's been going this way for years. But a friend of mine who's in the business says that it has more to do with the cost of producing vinyls than anything else. Records are made from crude oil and at $85 a barrel the records are becoming too costly to produce for such a small segment of the population who buys them (DJs, collectors, etc.). Unfortunately, the music business is built around money and sales and not the art that we like to think it is. In the end it's the labels bottom line that counts for everything and when they aren't selling enough vinyls to cover the cost of manufacturing, they'll axe the media altogether...save for maybe some promos they'll give to the big name vinyl DJs.

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Originally posted by Allen Mueller When ever I see dj's that are local to the area i'm in they seem to have alot of vinyl. Cd's offer a huge convience to international dj's who fly alot. I doubt they care about the cost since at that level you don't reely have to buy records. To me nuthing beats the sound or feel of vinyl. I agree a more intersting question would be when will cdj's die. They are very popular now but are being surpased by what can be done with laptop. I think the future will be things like the Maven, serato, final scratch, and mixers like the x one 3d or any of the other mixers out there that interface with a computer. I personally skipped getting cdj's and went with serato. To me its more fun with 1200's and record to touch than jog wheels and butons. allen

Well I think it's a manner of preferance, but I don't see CDJs dying for another 10 years or so. I think the what will probably replace CDJs is hard drive based systems that aren't laptops but are similar looking and functioning to CDJs. They will have small LCD screens and removeable hard drives where DJs can swap hard drives and play off of those. Kind of like the new Numark thing, but of course made much better and utilizing some functions of Serato, without the need to lug a laptop around, that might get broken. Rather everything will be stored on a small portable hard drive...that's what I feel will replace CDs. I'm just making this up, but who knows..

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Originally posted by Spirit5 Well I think it's a manner of preferance, but I don't see CDJs dying for another 10 years or so. I think the what will probably replace CDJs is hard drive based systems that aren't laptops but are similar looking and functioning to CDJs. They will have small LCD screens and removeable hard drives where DJs can swap hard drives and play off of those. Kind of like the new Numark thing, but of course made much better and utilizing some functions of Serato, without the need to lug a laptop around, that might get broken. Rather everything will be stored on a small portable hard drive...that's what I feel will replace CDs. I'm just making this up, but who knows..

i agree 100% with what spirit said...the way trends are with technology is that it will be a very intuitive shift the way these things are implemented especially in DJ technology....so like for example we might start seeing fusions of the new numark hard drive thing that spirit mentioned in combination with pio's dvj-x1...

some international dj dont play vynil not becoz they dont want to, but the risk taking it out, sandy rivera lost his records bag twice in the airport, and most of them, immagine u lost ur vynil bag.. i lost once, and feel i rather lost my turntable. thats why most inter dj prefer to bring small amount of vynil so it they can take it with them!!

No vinyl, no CD... what the hell are record companies going to put on the wall in their offices?

A shrine with a big picture of a gold hard drive of course

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Originally posted by skot_e No vinyl, no CD... what the hell are record companies going to put on the wall in their offices?

mp3s

CDJs will take awhile to die out. Carrying a binder full of CDs is still somewhat lighter than carrying a laptop around - and I don't know about you but I feel safer knowing I've got backup copies on my HD at home so if something happends to that binder, I don't have to spend thousands of dollars to buy a new one - just get a new bundle of CDrs and spend one boring afternoon re-burning all the tracks. That's the advantage of CDrs over mp3s - they're disposable, and expensive laptops aren't. Vinyl is less popular because, not only is it expensive to produce and to purchase, but it's fragile and very inflexible. Digital format is taking the edge because it can be transfered from one medium to another with the touch of a button. CDs will probably die out eventually.. but it won't be for a very long time, and it won't be because of mp3s.

You never know how this will pan out.
Vinyl has been dying out for almost as long as I have been a DJ.

When CDs first came out, nobody even though of them in terms of DJing but the commercial music industry had everyone believe that CDs were both inderstructable and superior in sound quality... horseshit as we have all learnt.
The only thing that really suffered from the introduction of the CD was the pre-recorded audio cassette.

As far as I see it, vinyl will be around for a while yet, and by the way things tend to go, if it did get phased out it would probably make a comeback due to the image and credibility it would give a DJ.

Digital works well.
Will we see CDs phased out, probably not for a long time, the simple reason being that not everyone wants to use a laptop. A question of preference really.

Nem

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Big name DJ still use Vinyls in their home states. I dont think it will die out for a long time.