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youknowthatoneguy
Mar 27, 2004
Mmm, boooofies!
To chime in with the outdated media posts, you all would be very surprised how much certain formats were used. I used to work for a company that mass duplicated media, VHS, CD, DVD, etc.

As of 2010, we were still getting orders for VHS tapes. There were some companies who REFUSED to update to DVD players. A lovely one costs about thirty dollars, probably cheaper and we still were making corporate videos on VHS. We eventually stopped offering the service, because housing the equipment wasn't worth it.

In 2009, there was a massive order for those CD business cards. As in, hundreds of thousands. Banks love those things.

In 2008, there were still orders for Audio Cassettes. I don't even know.

Anyone who thinks that CD/DVD's are going anywhere any time soon, you are sorely mistaken. Corporations still rely heavily on them and getting them to update to any kind of new technology is an exercise in futility. Regular consumers might adopt something else sooner, but corporations will use a format until it is no longer needed. We would get companies that ask for huge cd orders for literally one .pdf file on it. They could save thousands of dollars by just putting this .pdf on their website, but due to having little concept of technology, they go that route.

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