Best of both worlds

摘要

It's hard to believe that the compact disc has been with us for 30 years now, and it's difficult to remember what the world was like when it arrived, before the internet, before MP3. At that point, it was vinyl that had been around for 30 years, and it was in the doldrums. Video and home computers were getting consumers' attention and making records look very old-fashioned until, shiny and new, the CD successfully replaced the LP as the record industry's primary distribution format. No-one would have bet on the idea that turntables and vinyl record sales could ever start growing again. Then again, no-one at that time could have foreseen the revolution that downloading would bring.