But a dozen years ago, he started collecting examples of physical media formats. By day, he's a medical librarian in the UK. That's Jason Curtis' self-selected title, and it's apropos.
Unless, of course, you're the curator of the Museum of Obsolete Media. Why own anything when you can access virtually anything from a cloud?
And at home, we're more likely to rent or simply stream our media – TV shows, music, and movies from services as diverse as Netflix, Spotify, and Apple Music. Today, most stations use hard drives and/or the cloud to catalogue its music. Intro to Online Streaming Our webinar will tell you everything radio broadcasters should know about online streaming but are afraid to ask. Radio stations had walls of albums, and often physical music libraries to accommodate their formats. The reality is that we were all physical music collectors at one time. Ironically, vinyl has made a comeback in recent years, but only makes up a small percentage of music sold. This doesn't mean that CDs as a format will simply go away, but the writing is on the wall. Target is said to be considering the same decision. Billboard reported Best Buy's CD business has dwindled in recent years. That's what music lovers and collectors will have to deal with in the not-so-distant future as the Compact Disk goes the way of the 8-track and the 78 rpm record.Įarlier this month, Best Buy announced it will discontinue sales of CDs – one of their big items through the '80s and '90s – on July 1st. But three-and-a-half decades with the same company is long run by just about any measure.įor a media format, however, it's just not as impressive. At Jacobs Media, we celebrate our 35th anniversary this fall. If you think about it, 35 years is a long time.