# Oh my God, they killed technology...you bastards! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-technology-you-bastards/94079 "2001-11-18T19:29:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tyklfe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tyklfe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyklfe)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-technology-you-bastards/94079/41 "2001-11-20T01:05:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tyklfe \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by squeegee \*\*\* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by psychogumby \*\*\* > > > With the advent of cheap CD-RW drives, CD-Rs and (hopefully) cheap in-dash car MP3 players, I don’t see why this wouldn’t happen. > > > > Hmmm, my point wasn’t that you wouldn’t see it, but that it wouldn’t enormously widespread. Because it’s a pain in the behind to digitize all that content and get it out to the car. Ripping a bunch of CDs is like watching paint dry. If some more convenient and almost-as-cheap way to do this were offered from the content providers, the CD-\>MP3-\>car stuff will become obviated. Too early to tell, though. > > I actually agree with **Psychogumby** here - kinda. It’s not that car stackers will die, they’re evolving. > > Sony already sells a MP3-CD car stacker, which is easily connectable to their MP3-CD Head Unit, all in all a very nice system. > > And **Squeeqe** , it dosen’t take that long to burn a new disk - I can do it from start to finish in 20 mins. > > (that’s copying the old disks to computer - translating to MP3 - copying to new disk) \*\* dang it - preview, prewiew, preview [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-they-killed-technology-you-bastards/94079.md?page=2)