James Beckley, a medical records manager at Epsom Hospital, listened to the Chesney Hawkes song on headphones and a CD player at home and at work.

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Participants receive a CD of their performance, "so they can go home with a dream memory of the song they made, " Mr. Bing said.

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James' new CD is on Stax, a smaller label that was once home to soul icons such as The Staple Singers and Otis Redding.

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With Apple, Amazon.com, NetFlix and Microsoft pushing downloadable movies and cable and phone companies peddling a plethora of on-demand, high-definition content, the day is coming when the stacks of plain vanilla DVDs that clutter many home entertainment centers will go the way of the CD collection.

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But now that PCs are entering the home, the Japanese giant is worried that its TVs, CD players and other products will lose out.

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MP3 (and other) file formats would combine with increasingly affordable home computers to gently, but definitively, chip away at the CD's monopoly, bringing us to the present day.

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SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) has a device with which you can record your CD collection on a hard drive and select hundreds of different ways to play music on your home audio system.

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Unlike the CD-player, which was merely a better record-player, the VCR replaced no other gadget around the home.

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When he's not praising the Lord, he's whipping around the roads near his home in Olcott, New York, in his white 1996 Miata, the Hallelujah chorus blaring over his cd player.

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