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The Car CD Player Deathwatch

Technology has its own form of survival of the fittest. Once-popular media formats are eventually pushed aside as the masses move on to the new, more convenient way to watch movies, listen to music or read books. DVDs are currently falling victim to this vicious cycle as on-demand streaming video has finally become widespread. CDs have been on a slow decline since the dawn of the iPod over a decade ago. (When’s the last time you brought a disc into the car?) And now the auto industry has started to ditch the disc as well.

Read about the death of the disc in the car in an article I wrote for Edmunds.com and PCWorld TechHive.

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