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Originally Posted by sirmaru
So far as I know, no one sells 78 RPM Vinyl anymore. I don't buy CD's anymore but just buy my songs as mp3 files from Amazon. I don't think anyone sells video tape anymore since DVD's are sooooooo much better especially if one rents them from Netflix.
My old TV's, which got 8 stations over the air using cathode ray tubes, are gone forever. My present LCD TV's get hundreds of stations from Cable.
Today's high definition, color movies make the old black and white movies seem to be primitive hobbyist productions. Most can be watched on Netflix within a few months of their introductions in theaters. Thus, I haven't been to a theater since Netflix appeared. Finally, ordinary people with cell phones can take videos of superb quality making the professional black and white films of the past really amateurish.
I used to be able to get a few radio stations over the air on my old radios. Today my internet radios get thousands of stations from radio internet sites all over the planet. My old car radios were lucky to get a few stations over the air. My present car radio gets hundreds of stations from all over the world using Satellites.
So far as I know no one buys books on handwritten scrolls anymore.
Prior to 25 years ago eBooks were not even the subject of science fiction. Not even the old "Twilight Zone" scifi series of the early 60's even mentioned that concept.
NOTHING has stayed the same. So I still think eBooks will replace pBooks for 98% of readers in 10 years. They are more easily distributed, have a variety of fonts for every reader and can be read on all sorts of devices from PC's to Tablets to eInk Readers to cell phones to the new Google Wearables.
Print books, the same as scroll books, will always be of interest to scholars and places of learning. However, for the mass of retail book readers eBooks and even more advanced ways of transferring collections of words will be the way to go.
Finally, the old print books required good vision near 20/20 or glasses to correct to that level to read those books since the fonts were fixed. Today folks with very poor vision can select proper fonts and never need glasses at all to correct vision to read. That factor alone makes print books totally OBSOLETE in addition to making custom reading glasses also totally unnecessary for most people.
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In my world more than 50% still listen to the radio either at home or in their vehicles. And probably 90% still use satellite TV as opposed to internet TV.
And even among the young and technical crowd more read paper than ebooks. I see at least 30 people a day reading paper and maybe 20 a week reading electronically other than facebook/twitter etc.. And newspapers disappear faster than the bus can bring them.
Helen