Vinyl's robustness comes from being purely mechanical and analog. That's film's advantage too. To play back a CD, you need the physical electronics to read the

Vinyl's robustness comes from being purely mechanical and analog. That's film's advantage too. To play back a CD, you need the physical electronics to read the data (even moreso for magnetic media formats) but you also need the algorithms needed to turn the physical data into information. With vinyl the wiggles in the medium are directly related to wiggles in the sound waves the medium is encoding; all you have to do is amplify them. Even if you had no idea what a record is, you could stumble across the playback mechanism by accident.