The format is steaming toward ubiquity. We see people putting old cassettes and LPs on digital formats, archiving them. Once it's on CD, it's permanent. Even Iomega is shifting more of its attentions to CD-RW formats. Zip, after all, is proprietary.
CDs are everywhere.
Another factor is MP3, the digital music format that allows Internet users to download songs off the Web. IDC is conducting a consumer survey about CD-RW drives, Schlichting said, but he wagered that one of the draws of recordable CDs is the ability to download and store music. MP3 also undermines one of the selling points of Floppy's cousin, the cassette tape. Portable MP3 players don't skip the way many CD players do and could deliver digital music to health clubs and joggers as a replacement for the cassette Walkman. The CDs can hold 74 minutes of music, or about 650 megabytes of computer data.