Warner to Sell Music on DVD

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "Warner Music is planning an aggressive attempt to replace the CD by pushing consumers to buy their music on specially outfitted DVDs, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's music to the ears of some struggling retailers who seek a new physical product to re-capture some of the online (and file-sharing) market. 'As a retailer I'm going to be holding on desperately for any compelling physical product,' said Eric Levin, who owns two independent stores called Criminal Records in the Atlanta area. 'So the introduction of a new format...is cause for excitement.' More from the article: 'But there are some stumbling blocks that may discourage consumers from embracing DVD albums. The new discs would not play on normal CD players, meaning consumers could not simply pop their new discs into their car stereos or other players. And users would not be able to copy the main audio mix onto their computers. On the proposed DVD album, the main audio mix is to be protected by the same software that already protects the content on normal DVDs.'"

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Re:DRM yadda yadda...

[sk8dork]

would you have been the guy decades ago saying "what the hell do i want shiny plastic disks for? i can't play them in my cassette player in my car or my cassette walkman or boombox...if i want music on shiny plastic i'll buy live shows on laser disc. i fail to see what niche this is filling."

i'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that there might be new player devices appearing in the future to cater to a new standard such as this.

i for one am open to the idea of very high quality recordings on shiny plastic. on the other hand i'm not very open to DRM'd crap. then again, back then i bet people thought that no one would ever be able to copy the cool new compact discs they way they copied cassettes with their fancy high-speed dubbing.

offtopic: wow, i just noticed that slashdot commenting is wysiwyg