I cannnot understand why manufacturers STILL try and make money off solid state memory based mp3 players. Solid state is good, but it's capacity SUCKS!!! a 128mb mp3 player! What a waste of money and time! The reason why mp3 is there is to provide more than what your cd player can provide and that is hours and hours of music on one device! I'll only look at solid state memory based mp3 players when those memory cards have capacities of 40gb and up. Then it is more worth it. Looks like Nomad and iPod still rank as the best mp3 players out.
Circuit City, Best Buy might not be in South Africa, but to get my point across, I don't think refering to South Africa stores like Audio Vision, Signals Audio Video, DSV, etc would make sense since I cannot imagine the majority of readers to this group being South African.
I am from Cape Town, South Africa and I personally think one of the many reasons why people p2p for music is because of the price of CDs nowadays. Here, we are paying about R130-R150 a CD which averages about $17. It may not sound much for the Americans out there, but for us here in SA, it is a lot of money to spend on a CD.
Compare to a Large McDonalds Big Mac meal, fries and a Coke for R22.
Many people out there would rather own the original CD because of the quality advantage and CD sleeve, etc, but people are only prepared to pay for CDs rather than to p2p if they were cheaper. Doesn't the RIAA realise this? Don't they think that if they had to bring the price down by 50% or so that they would sell more CDs, and so in turn make more money?
But nowadays commerce doesn't think like this. For example, bring the price of plasma television screens down by a huge amount and BELIEVE ME, people will storm each and every Circuit City, Best Buy, etc and buy them.
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I cannnot understand why manufacturers STILL try and make money off solid state memory based mp3 players. Solid state is good, but it's capacity SUCKS!!! a 128mb mp3 player! What a waste of money and time! The reason why mp3 is there is to provide more than what your cd player can provide and that is hours and hours of music on one device! I'll only look at solid state memory based mp3 players when those memory cards have capacities of 40gb and up. Then it is more worth it. Looks like Nomad and iPod still rank as the best mp3 players out.
Circuit City, Best Buy might not be in South Africa, but to get my point across, I don't think refering to South Africa stores like Audio Vision, Signals Audio Video, DSV, etc would make sense since I cannot imagine the majority of readers to this group being South African.
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I am from Cape Town, South Africa and I personally think one of the many reasons why people p2p for music is because of the price of CDs nowadays. Here, we are paying about R130-R150 a CD which averages about $17. It may not sound much for the Americans out there, but for us here in SA, it is a lot of money to spend on a CD.
Compare to a Large McDonalds Big Mac meal, fries and a Coke for R22.
Many people out there would rather own the original CD because of the quality advantage and CD sleeve, etc, but people are only prepared to pay for CDs rather than to p2p if they were cheaper. Doesn't the RIAA realise this? Don't they think that if they had to bring the price down by 50% or so that they would sell more CDs, and so in turn make more money?
But nowadays commerce doesn't think like this. For example, bring the price of plasma television screens down by a huge amount and BELIEVE ME, people will storm each and every Circuit City, Best Buy, etc and buy them.
I would love to hear your comments on this.
Thanks