CD, R.I.P. (con't.)

Charles Arthur, posting on The Guardian’s Technology Blog, reports that Linn, the Scottish audio manufacturer, has given up on CD players. Buyers of Linn’s pricey components "have moved, with alacrity, to hard drive-based systems – its DS ‘streaming players’ – that allow them to encode their entire CD collection in order to play any track at will" . . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/20/linn-audio-streaming-cd-players