TIVO or not, just because a commercial has been aired doesn't mean I'm staying in my seat to watch it. I either channel surf, watch pic-in-pic or leave the room for a minute or three.
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Console and hardware sales will account for $22 billion, or nearly 70 percent of the market, in 2002.
Home video-game sales have soared in the past decade, creating a market that now rivals film and music as the most popular entertainment pastimes."
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-938694.html
As stated in that article, gaming is eclipsing film and music. Could that be the reason music is suffering? Maybe no the sole reason. I would say there are many factors contributing to the music industry's problem: the dot com burst and the associated lay-offs (of which I was a victim), gaming, customer revolt against high CD prices and now forcing DRM in a non-fair-use method, and piracy. Yes, I do download MP3's and see nothing wrong b/c 99% of them I download are singles only; I refuse to pay $5 for a single CD and the ability to buy a single online and play it anywhere I want has not matured. And of the entire CD's I have downloaded, I already owned them but had them stolen, therefore I do not see the need to purchase the media for the second time when in fact I have already purchased a liscense to use the music and I use the net to obtain that which I lost.
Personally, I've bought more gaming media in the past 5yrs than I have paid for music in the past 12yrs and I've only downloaded MP3 for less than 2yrs. Games are just more entertaining than music because music offers no "replay value".
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Non-compressed media will always be of superior quality as compared to compressed media.
woot!!
Here come the lawyers.
TIVO or not, just because a commercial has been aired doesn't mean I'm staying in my seat to watch it. I either channel surf, watch pic-in-pic or leave the room for a minute or three.
" Console and hardware sales will account for $22 billion, or nearly 70 percent of the market, in 2002. Home video-game sales have soared in the past decade, creating a market that now rivals film and music as the most popular entertainment pastimes." http://news.com.com/2100-1040-938694.html As stated in that article, gaming is eclipsing film and music. Could that be the reason music is suffering? Maybe no the sole reason. I would say there are many factors contributing to the music industry's problem: the dot com burst and the associated lay-offs (of which I was a victim), gaming, customer revolt against high CD prices and now forcing DRM in a non-fair-use method, and piracy. Yes, I do download MP3's and see nothing wrong b/c 99% of them I download are singles only; I refuse to pay $5 for a single CD and the ability to buy a single online and play it anywhere I want has not matured. And of the entire CD's I have downloaded, I already owned them but had them stolen, therefore I do not see the need to purchase the media for the second time when in fact I have already purchased a liscense to use the music and I use the net to obtain that which I lost. Personally, I've bought more gaming media in the past 5yrs than I have paid for music in the past 12yrs and I've only downloaded MP3 for less than 2yrs. Games are just more entertaining than music because music offers no "replay value".
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Now, if I could only get Lindows for my iMac.
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What? Just give me GEM or TOS. Now those were a great combination OS.
Atari rulez!!!