Gonna miss having physical media to touch.

Hard to beat a good CD, and they last longer than LPs.

CDs are going to be around or a very long time still.

They are cheap to make, small, quick to read by a player and good sound quality, for larger files I prefer flash memory than DVD or blue ray, I think CD's may outlive DVD and blue ray disks.

CD (and SACD) give good satisfaction to those of us who like the little ritual associated with opening a CD and reading the notes. For those of us with reasonable quality players that are needed to listen to existing collections and whose collections expand, there will still be a need for CDs (and SACDs). That won't stop me from adding a music server and DAC to my setup at some stage, and this development won't stop me purchasing new CDs. Don't foregt that for some types of music dissemination of a band's work is by selling CDs at the time of a gig or concert.

The LP was supposed to have died in the mid eighties...remember?

Who cares? I have not bought a CD for three years... and then I bought a bunch of used ones..

I reckon around five years. It won't be long before downloading just takes over. It happens very quickly sometimes.

Many consumers stil want some sort of physical medium. There also needs to be a common format for vehicles before CD's die out