Re: Bashing the format....

all fine pictures of sony bricks.

Eddie,

Last I heard, people were still playing CDs. They're just doing it on DVD players now and various flimsy plastic players.

John

john,

actually, my sister and i are the last people i know our age who still buy CDs. i buy CDs only because of the "kicking the tires" nostalgia (i.e. the pretty packaging, booklets, photos, etc.), but that's only for soundtracks every so often and gigi leung. my sister buys CDs only when she can't get it in electronic form from the internet.

where the music industry is, the movie industry will follow eventually. the only thing keeping movies "safe" now is bandwidth, but as has been seen with college servers, sometimes up to 60% of network activity is taken up by peer-to-peer downloads/transfers of movies.

eddie

Music media has changed quite a lot for me since I purchased a Zune. However, I'm with Eddie, I still enjoy buying a CD because of all the packaging and the audio quality is much better. I've downloaded several artists, but the ones I find I like a lot, I'll still go get them on CD. Then again, if an artist is not playing along with the DMC then they are not available for download -- therefore you have to buy the CD.

I just bought the new Cold Play CD. I agree that CD's will not be replaced. I buy more CD's than I do Movies.

BTW, I forgot how small these were.


Or this!

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[Post edited by ReaggieP on Jul 4, 2008]

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all fine pictures of sony bricks.

Lol so true, and there is many more!

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where the music industry is, the movie industry will follow eventually. the only thing keeping movies "safe" now is bandwidth, but as has been seen with college servers, sometimes up to 60% of network activity is taken up by peer-to-peer downloads/transfers of movies.

eddie

Bandwidth is not the only thing preventing DVDs from going the same way as CDs. Movies are not the same as music. I prefer downloading music because I can get only the tracks I want, and I only ever listen to them on my ipod through earphones or connected to my car's sound system. DVDs have a lot more factors to consider. You need to consider audio quality, and what sound options will be best for your system or language of preference. You need to consider picture quality and what will look best on your system, because, despite the push on those stupid "Digital Copies", people watch movies primarlity at home. If you like knowing about the production of movies through featurettes, audio commentaries, etc., you have to consider that you won't get all of these through a download. On top of all that, if you are a real movie fan, who loves to watch movies at their best, and watch them more than once, you need to be able to store them, and being able to store a large collection of movies with all of those options mentioned is a long, LONG way off. Downloading will certainly destroy the rental market at some point, but that's it.

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[Post edited by interplanetaryspy on Jul 5, 2008]

interplanetaryspy:

i'm sure that your reasoning was used by audiophiles who can't fathom why anyone would listen to music encoded in the lossy MP3 format on headphones, but the fact of the matter is that many people out there like the "digital copies" that studios regularly include with their dvd and blu-ray releases. we're in a forum filled with cinema buffs, but the fact of the matter is that most people still watch movies with sound from their TVs (which are usually 30-inches or smaller). i used to think that it was ridiculous to watch TV shows and movies on 2-inch iPod monitors, but now that my sister does that with her Zune, i'm convinced that portability matters much more to people in general than high-quality presentations requiring sitting down in front of decent equipment.

eddie

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And I wish I owned the disc player in the final picture.

I agree. That thing is AWESOME!!! I love large electronics. Those were the days.....sigh.

Blu Ray software is still too expensive.

eddie,
don't know how old you are, but i'm 36 and i still buy cd's too. i dont own an ipod, and i don't want one either. LONG LIVE CD!!!! (since we cannot have vinyl..or dvd audio..or sacd).

-blade (thinking compressed audio sucks!)

-and ripping^^^jason off again.