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Sunday Newspapers, Now With CDs

Posted by michael on from the 1045-free-hours dept.

VirtualUK writes "The BBC news site has a story today about The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass that comes with its Sunday edition. They cite that one of the main reasons is that Internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD."

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  1. Oh I get those by zifty · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to get CDs with my paper all the time. Of course, they were from AOL...

    1. Re:Oh I get those by di0s · · Score: 2, Funny

      FWIW, they make great (low cost)shotgun targets, coasters, and most people like getting them less than fruit cakes...

  2. Re:True by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...video on my 486 from a CD yet still forced to a tiny little window with garbled sound quality and badly pixelated video

    You played Myst too?

  3. That's nice by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Somebody should suggest they run an article on Linux, so they'd just have to stick knoppix on the CD and save on the multimediocre content creation.

    Also, somebody should suggest the same idea to Playboy Magazine. They don't even need to make it fancy, just a directory with huge jpegs and another with videos ...

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  4. Pffft ... CD Newspaper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gonna be awkward trying to read the news while I'm on the throne.

    1. Re:Pffft ... CD Newspaper by EverDense · · Score: 3, Funny

      Gonna be awkward trying to read the news while I'm on the throne.

      Holy shit! Prince Harry reads Slashdot.

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      http://jesus.everdense.com/
    2. Re:Pffft ... CD Newspaper by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 4, Funny

      Didn't you get your iLoo yet? Or at least hack your own together? (look honey, I duct taped a laptop to the bathroom wall! Isn't it cool!!?)

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      Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
  5. sweeet.... by jr87 · · Score: 2, Funny

    more coasters

  6. Never underestimate by The+Famous+Brett+Wat · · Score: 4, Funny
    The cite that one of the main reasons is that internet connection speeds have still yet to catch up on the whole in order to benefit from the rich multimedia content of the CD.

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a paper-boy on a bicycle.

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    proof, n. A demonstration that a conclusion is implied by certain premises and axioms.
  7. Re:No wonder there's only 2 reply so far by IIRCAFAIKIANAL · · Score: 4, Funny

    with the sunday edition AND a multimedia cd, nobody will be done reading the news paper before next week!

    That's no excuse! Any slashdot readers won't bother reading the articles anyway - they'd just hold the paper and cd, read the headlines, and then bitch about stuff around the water cooler anyhow... ;)

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    Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
  8. Re:Enviromentally friendly ? by wackybrit · · Score: 4, Funny

    aren't plastics created from oil ?. At least trees can grow back.

    Most experiments in producing wooden CDs have failed miserably, except for Madonna's latest album which was both wooden and sold heaps.

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    mogorific carpentry experiments
  9. Favourite comment from the page... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have large picture windows in my living room
    and birds keep flying into them, usually breaking
    their necks - it's most distressing. However, I
    find that if I hang the Sunday Times CD ROM on a
    string outside the window they stay well clear.

    Thank you, Sunday Times!
    Jean, UK

  10. Wow by Andrewkov · · Score: 1, Funny
    The Times, now with spyware!

    Well, at least it's not the New York times, or you'd have to put in your registration just to open the CD..

  11. Virtual Page Three by mdmitchell · · Score: 3, Funny

    >The BBC news site has a story today about The Times news paper now distributing a CD along with the tree mass that comes with its Sunday edition.

    Who cares about the Times on CD?
    We want the Sun--page three(*) in particular!

    *--for explanation see http://home.freeuk.com/webbuk/page3/about.htm

  12. Sunday cd rom by bunnylove · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, Sunday! The day to kick back, drink coffee, read the paper, play with the kids. Perfect! Ah, sunday! A day to NOT look at a computer screen. Why would anyone ever ruin their Sunday (or any other day) by loading up a cd/dvd that you KNOW willl be filled with ads? It's just junk mail in a different form. Junk mail that takes work to view.... sigh.