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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. Monthly, not every Sunday by sinjayde · · Score: 5, Informative

    The CD will come out monthly, not every Sunday as reported in the story.

    I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier actually. Magazine's have been slapping on CDs to their publications for a long while now (especially Gaming and computer mags) and these days you can even get CD's on Breakfast Cereal boxes.

    Of course, whether or not any of the information contained on the cd's will be of any use/quality is another matter.

  2. Re:Stuff that matters by Charles+E.+Hardwidge · · Score: 5, Informative
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but this appears to be a story by one news site about a single newspaper in the United Kingdom that's only published one day out of seven distributing a CD ROM on an occasional basis. Excuse me while I dig out a list of other publications that provide a monthly CD. I'm sure there must be one or two...
    The Times and Sunday Times are very much the same newspaper, though they're run as two largely seperate entities under two different editors. Both are owned by Rupert Murdoch, a hideous individual who is responsible for The Thunderer's decline in quality from its heyday. It's no coincidence that The Times is no longer referred to by this affectionate term, its teeth and reliability as a newspaper of record having disappeared years ago. One ray of hope is that the close and arguably biased coverage, of the Iraq War and subsequent inquiry into events surrounding its aftermath, may provide evidence that Murdoch is in breach of the agreement with the government of the time that allowed his takeover of the newspaper. Should the case of Murdoch not granting full editorial impartiality be proven he could lose the cornerstone of his international media empire. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing the sentiment this happens sooner rather than later.
  3. CD Contents by bobbis.u · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have the CD in front of me and for those that care, this is some of the stuff it contains:
    • Lots of renault adverts
    • Feature on David Bowie
    • Film trailers (with a small write up): Calender Girls, Gigli, Le Divorce, Italian Job, Matchstick Men, Ned Kelly, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Young Adam
    • DVD trailers: Antwone Fisher, Bulletproof monk, City Of God, Evelyn, Maid in Manhatten, National security
    • Music (few short samples, CD writeup): David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Dido, Seal, Placebo, Starsailer, + about 10 others
    • Few arts features: Andrew Lloyd Webber's paintings, Opera, Ballet stuff
    • Game trailers: Colin McRae Rally 04, Crimson Skies, Great Escape, Italian Job, Rugby '04
    • Few kids games and DVD trailers
    • Best of TV guide
    • What's on listings for your area (requires internet)

    The loader is quite slick, but unfortunately it has been made with flash and took an age to load the first time on my machine.
    As an asside you also got a code with the cd cover to see if you had won 1000gbp. I was tempted to write a program to brute it because it was only 3 letters (all ucase) and 4 numbers, but you also need to send in the cover to claim the prize...
  4. Re:Environmental concerns? by IANAAC · · Score: 2, Informative

    1. put CD in high tech shreader
    2. use as packing material
    3. profit?
    3. put packing material in trash and watch trash people cart said trash to land fill.
    4. uh...

  5. Predicted by Doctor Fun by Ellen+Spertus · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9511/df951102 .jpg