On 06/07/2010 16:43, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In , Rob
wrote:
On 05/07/2010 20:55, David Looser wrote:
"Malcolm wrote in message

5) I am not lumbered with a collection of CDs that will be worthless
in a few years time when most/all digital music will come via the
net.

Why on earth should the fact that most music in the future will
(probably) be bought via the net make existing CD collections
worthless?



Substitutes are becoming increasingly sophisticated - the sound quality,
convenience, the extras, and the methods of replay.

You'd have to give some examples so I can know what you mean here.


Not sure which words you'd like me to explain. As an example, a
'substitute' is an iTunes track. 'Sound quality' is increased bitrates.

And I would add cost, which for a number of people is I suspect nothing.

Which may well be why the big companies would prefer us all to switch to
using things like blu ray and internet devices they can control. 8-]


Yep, but I suspect the damage is more or less done. Just about the
entire back catalogue of digital music is out there somewhere i'd have
thought.

All of which renders the 'original' CD less valuable - and it was always
an impersonal bit of poorly packaged plastic with illegible labels in
the first place. Exceptions will exist, but in general CDs will be
landfill in 20 years.

Will be interesting for far-future archeologists to find the 'vinyl layers'
in landfill just under the 'cd layers'. I wonder how many LPs are already
there?...

:-)

Of course.

Probably won't matter to me as I'll also likely as not be
'landfill' myself by then as well! :-)


Think of the children :-)

The worst problem with LP wasn't the packaging. It was the ease with which
it could be audibly poorly made and audibly damaged by the owner. But then
I don't buy books for their covers...


Yes, of course I have to accept it's a fragile medium. But very few on
this NG ever seem to accept the popularity of LPs a good few decades
after they stopped making them in any numbers. And if they accept it,
there doesn't seem to be any serious attempt to explain it, limitations
(true and deep) notwithstanding.

Rob