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Author: Richard Adams
I f you were to look down the aisles of the local consumer electronics shop these days you would notice that there are a number of MP3 players that are seemingly poised to overtake the age old CD player in the consumer electronics market. Yes, it would definitely seem that after close to two decades of dominance the CD player is fading away and the MP3 player is replacing it. In order to understand why this is so, one needs to look at the differences between CD players and MP3 players as well as their own historical evolution in the marketplace.
A CD Player is a device that plays Compact Disks which are audio disks that contain a finite amount of information digitally recorded onto them. Although compact disks had been around since the mid-1980's they did not start to really take off in sales until the early 1990's and their effect on the consumer electronics world was nothing short of staggering. When compact discs came along it was not only the end of the record album but it was also the end of cassette tape as well. While a great deal of the reason for this was due to the fact that CDS possessed significantly better sound quality thanks to their digital recording (Albums cassettes and 8-Track tapes were recording on the old analogue systems and were loaded with "hiss") one could never dismiss the portability of the CD. You could listen to a CD on your car's CD player. You could listen to a CD on your Sony Walkman. You basically had a number of portability options that a record album could not provide. Now, a cassette tape could provide these but the sound quality was lacking. As such, CD players greatly overtook cassettes in the marketplace.
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