2-5 years at this rate. Seriously.

A point to Mr. Armstrong with that. I have a feeling that clubs won't have much of a choice in the future if people keep bringing in things like final scratch though. The times are changing again.

as long as they give "dj's" a line in, they're set. No gear to remove or anything.

vinyl yes, but not cds. So as long as cds are around, so will beatmatching. but... if there aren't any TT's then scratch software will be nearly useless. I don't think TT's will be gone for that very reason.

Was a real eye opener seeing all the differnect set ups at cornerstone. Really does put things in persepctive. To be honest im still beat matching even when using ableton. I dont always hav tiome to prepare all my trakc s before i play i just about have tiome to import them in. So i tend use the slider as i bring in the next track. I would prefer to warp everything!

Does it matter if the art form goes out? Theres a slight argument that it does matter. But im getting more and more excited about the future of djing and edm. A question i have  about digtial compared to decks is wether digtal djing is as animated.

I like FS style systems, has the vinyl control but mp3 music.

I used to be a diehard vinyl advocate, but i find that the preceived "control" of vinyl is nothing compared to the actual control you have with ableton live.

example: You're playing to a small crowd of 25 or so, you drop an AC Slater remix of boulevard of broken dreams that you KNOW is just gona slay them. Breakdown kicks in and dude from greenday starts singing, and you hear above the much-too-loud monitors the faint sounds of boos, look up and everyone in the room, even your wife, hates it. crappiest track of the night. To make matters even worse, the breakdown is almost 2.5 min. long. So what do you do? Vinyl you can either sit through 2 min of gut-wrenching hell, as you see people start to head over to the chairs...or you can rip the fader over to some track you've barely had time to cue up, and sound like a total dork-wad in the process. With ableton, you skip half the breakdown at a point that makes musical sense, mix out with some shooting star, get the crowd back on my side, and everyone still loves the dj.

Vinyl may look cool, but you can do soo much more with ableton or other software products. And a lit up apple sitting on stage doesn't look too shabby either.