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You can play a CDG on a computer......

Well you can RIP a CD+G of course with software (and an antique CD disc drive).
A CD+G or CD-A are nothing like CD-ROM other than the plastic they are pressed on. They are completely different and incompatible standards. The difference is that the info on the CD-ROM could be on any storage device. CD+G cannot. As CD's die, more and more manu's are simply going to offer MP3+G's on various other media. We have already seen it happen. Chartbuster on Compact Flash and USB Hard Drive, GEM on data disc, Cloud Streaming, Sunfly Downloads, etc. One day soon as prices continue to drop you'll buy a solid state drive or USB flash drive with your music on it. The expense and size limitation of plastic discs are helping their demise.

FYI: You have no more/less "rights" with a legit CD+G than you do with a legit MP3+G.



An antique computer. Have you bought a new laptop lately? The internal CD drive is disappearing fast, if you can find one at all. If you want to pay more you can get an external USB CD, until they too die away. The same thing happened with floppies, serial & parallel printer ports. Going...going....

yes, just bought one last week and so far every laptop i have seen has a dvd drive.
not state of the art, but not dead yet.

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On life support. Did you notice how many of the top end, ultra thin, SSD models didn't come with drives? Less and less every year. In a few short years, poof. Floppy time.

None of the MacBooks ship with an optical drive. Same with Tablets and slates.

CD/DVD media is a fast dying medium. I consider a dead medium simply because the only CD/DVD's I have bought in the last 12 years have been karaoke related with the bulk of that being in the last 4 years and only for compliance.

With every major software platform moving to an online store model, there will be a significant decrease for optical drives for anything other than legacy content. There has been a steady drop in new material being released in the optical format in the past 5 years. Practically all PC game developers now allow you to by a digital version at a discount price.

It won't go away overnight, but given production costs, piracy, and simplified, secure online distribution, there isn't much of a need to do optical media any longer. The publisher know this and they are adjusting accordingly. The public demand for content in this format is steadily dropping as well. Only Blu-Ray is maintaining any decent numbers. BluRay and other HD media will last longer than anything else because of the new 4k and higher resolution formats being developed. There just isn't sufficient bandwidth at an affordable price in the US to stream that kind of content.

-Chris

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-Chris

What scares me is that you think this is a good thing. I'm not speaking of any quality issues, but privacy and control.

I have a tablet, and unless I buy an external drive, I can't add any software unless it's from cyberspace- which is entirely without privacy, quality control, or source verification, and - in many cases- without software instruction. Forget software backups too.

Progress is awesome....

No worries, I get it: "Convenience Trumps Quality"

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" Disc based and loving it..."

Of course it's a good thing. Losing floppy discs was a good thing. Losing punch cards was a good thing. Losing hard drives the size of a washing machine was a good thing.

You lose no more "privacy" or "control" by losing CD's then you did by losing floppies. It's just an antique storage method and has no inherit privacy. There are dozens of alternatives that are infinitely larger and cheaper per gigabyte.



I am quite sure your tablet came with a cable that you can sync, and thus load from a PC. That is unless you have chosen to go "PC less", but again, that is your choice. Regardless, your fears of buying & loading software over the internet are unfounded.



Again, Joe, when you make these continued (and thus far unexplained) statements about "privacy", "quality control" and "source verification", you are only displaying your complete ignorance as to how data gets from point A to point B. In Joe speak "It's a broken record".



Huh? You can backup to external hard drive, solid state media, etc. Plenty of methods that are infinitely larger than a 720MB CD-ROM or even a 2GB DVD-ROM. Heck you can buy a tiny 64GB USB Memory stick and carry the equivalent of nearly 100 CD+G's on your key ring. How this is worse than an antique piece of plastic is beyond baffling.



Paralyzing fear of technology is just sad.