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  1. The same reason why Berlin was released on DVD and not Blu Ray.

    CD is still a much more popular format than Vinyl and is much more accessible for the general public. Probably cost less when manufacturing as well.
  2. I have a record player and a couple records, but I prefer cd to vinyl. For that reason I’m glad they’re doing the gift on cd. I think the gifts that involve music from now should remain on cd and gifts that have concerts etc. from the 80’s should be on vinyl to capture the time.
  3. Originally posted by SJKamal:The same reason why Berlin was released on DVD and not Blu Ray.

    CD is still a much more popular format than Vinyl and is much more accessible for the general public. Probably cost less when manufacturing as well.
    This is not entirely true; while more units of CDs are sold annually than units of vinyl, listeners are spending more of their money on vinyl.

    It may be a reach, but in today's age CDs are barely more accessible than a vinyl record. The only people I know with CD players have had them for years and years. I don't have one anymore, and my laptop doesn't even play them. If I wanted to listen to a CD, I'd have to do it in my car.

    I'm sure the ability to put it on a desktop computer makes it more accessible but at that point who cares? Release it digitally. Opting to release CD over vinyl as a collectible release is objectively goofy.
  4. CD's are cheaper to produce?
  6. I like CD's. I have no nostalgic connection to vinyl.
  7. I was commenting less on preference and more about accessibility - I suppose it is indeed a reach to say that CD and vinyl are equally accessible.

    But I'll revise my point to say that I think CD is becoming less accessible than people give it credit for, and their prior decisions to release far inferior material on vinyl make this extremely disappointing and a baffling choice.
  8. I still think far more people are listening to music on cd than vinyl. The amount of people that have a CD player will far outweighs those who have a record player. You’ve got blu Ray and DVD players as well that can play them so you don’t need to buy a CD player specifically. Cd is also better quality sound. I’ve been collecting vinyl recently and I do think it’s a better looking collectible but I do still like having a cd as an easy back up to my downloads that I can just burn straight to iTunes. Cd would always be my first choice for that reason but I wouldn’t complain at vinyl anymore whereas up until I started my collection it would have felt a bit of a waste of a physical item to me. They can’t really win, people were complaining at a dvd for berlin over blu Ray because of the quality but people now complain at cd over vinyl even though cd is better quality. I’ll just be happy if they keep releasing plenty of live material as the subscriber item. There’s always preferences and suggestions about what more they could do which I’ve contributed to myself but when it comes down to it I’m actually more than happy to renew at £30 and receive music that I’ll listen to plenty and an item that ends up being worth more than the fee. Just stay away from books and lithographs.
  9. Who's loading up CDs into their blu ray player and listening to music through the TV? Show of hands?

    And I see the age-old CD vs. Vinyl debate that all-but-destroyed bobplaysthedrums has re-entered the chat...
  10. Most of my CDs are pretty scratched after years and years of playing them over, specially in car radios that don't treat discs very well
  11. Originally posted by MattG:Who's loading up CDs into their blu ray player and listening to music through the TV? Show of hands?

    And I see the age-old CD vs. Vinyl debate that all-but-destroyed bobplaysthedrums has re-entered the chat...
    Probably not many people but definitely some and you certainly won’t see someone playing vinyl through a blu Ray player though. More people will be listening to cd than vinyl. More unit sales, more places to play it and technically better sound. You’ll also get plenty of people that like having a cd to burn straight to their computer or laptop and it’s always handy in case you lose the downloads. I know it gives me peace of mind thinking if something went wrong with my MacBook I could easily get my music back on my next purchase.
  12. Saying that Vinyl is as accessible as CDs was a far reach and I was going to provide a counter argument but Dean has pretty much summed it up.

    However Matt is correct in saying that CDs are becoming less accessible (but they are still more accessible than Vinyl).