Glad you agree. I feel the entertainment industry purposely changes the format of digital entertainment to get us to buy everything again. It is said that the new hardware (cassette, CD players, etc) makes everything sound better, but do we care? If we did, why are we all listening to mp3's, which are lower quality than the originals? So again, they change it to make additional revenue from our repurchases. Once I purchase it, I should own a license to the material and store it, use it in any form I need to, for my own personal use.
It's about time. The music industry has no problem changing formats. I can look back at my 45's, FP's, 8-tracks, cassettes, CD, minidisks, etc...... Why do I have to re-buy my music due to the industry changing formats? I can't disagree that I could maintain all my old equipment (8-tracks, cassettes), but why would I want to? Why should I have to? The movie industry is going down the same path... beta, VHS, laserdisk, dvd's, now HD-dvd's.
'bout time!
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Glad you agree. I feel the entertainment industry purposely changes the format of digital entertainment to get us to buy everything again. It is said that the new hardware (cassette, CD players, etc) makes everything sound better, but do we care? If we did, why are we all listening to mp3's, which are lower quality than the originals? So again, they change it to make additional revenue from our repurchases. Once I purchase it, I should own a license to the material and store it, use it in any form I need to, for my own personal use.
I also agree and won't buy anything with DRM.
It's about time. The music industry has no problem changing formats. I can look back at my 45's, FP's, 8-tracks, cassettes, CD, minidisks, etc...... Why do I have to re-buy my music due to the industry changing formats? I can't disagree that I could maintain all my old equipment (8-tracks, cassettes), but why would I want to? Why should I have to? The movie industry is going down the same path... beta, VHS, laserdisk, dvd's, now HD-dvd's. 'bout time!