call me crazy, but I really love to throw in lets say Wagners Ring, enjoy the pictures and synopsis in the booklet and read along with the texts.
I still like to hold them, for example the wonderful Miles Davis complete Columbia recordings. Very convenient, very economic, and let's not pass something very important, very nice to look at.
I might go with your first, no moving parts, only electronics (set aside that modern electronics can go wrong (modern cars) and cause problems no one can solve (the BDP1 Bonjour kicks Airplay....), but your 2, convenience, still has a very long way to go (all the ripping and retagging, ordering and sorting, and 3, today's economics fail completely, since you pay much more for a (hires) download, than you pay for a cd that as a plus comes with al the niceties mentioned above.
For me the most overwhelming consideration is absolute sound quality of the hires- audio world. For that, I gladly forgo the lack of just those nr 2 and 3 .
Until the industry has settled and hires downloads are everywhere, I see a long life for CD's. The masses won't pay premium for Hires, and for that the industry won't settle as wished for. That's modern economics.
For that, I'm happy to have them both, and every morning I press those power buttons with care.
But that's only me of course. I do hope that Bryston will service the BCD-1 for a long time. Utterly enjoying it.
Have fun,
Marius
let alone the fact that when I would have to rip all my cd's I've collected over the last 30 years or so (what was it 1982?), I would have even less time to make a living and buy all that nice Bryston gear. O boy nostalgia Philips cd100
http://www.vintagehifi.nl/philips.html and Walter/Ferrier/Mahler
http://www.gramophone.net/ClassicReview/View/99/THE%20CLASSIC%20REVIEW%0D%0AThis%20classic%20account%20of%20Mahler's%20Das%20Lied%20von%20der%20Erde,%20sung%20by%20Kathleen%20Ferrier%20and%20conducted%20by%20Bruno%20Walter,%20remains%20a%20catalogue%20favourite%20-%20but%20how%20did%20we%20first%20review%20it%3F both still here....
I have not played a single CD since getting the BDP, not one! I have also nearly completed ripping my vinyl on to the BDP, so soon there will be no media at all, the times they are a changing.
Cheers