I wanted to be cool when I was 12. I wanted to be accepted. So if my nerdy 23 year old self gave my nerdy 12 year old self advice...I'm not sure I would have listened. You don't become cool by listening to a nerd.
I could see a time when you no longer buy a book, magazine or newspaper, but instead buy(or download) a data cartride which is then inserted into your electronic reading device. The reading device would consist of a couple of pages of this stuff, something to read the data and some sort of navigation system(flip to page XXX, next page,...). You could possibly even integrate the ability to write on this electronic pad so that you could save you comments, highlight and other such things.
You could even have different, convieneint sizes. Novel size, newspaper size, magazine size and possibly texbook size.
I don't know about all of you but my mp3 collection is pretty diverse. I have a song or 2 from hundreds of different 'artists'. But rarely do I have more than 3 songs from the same 'artist'. And more than likely those 3 songs aren't even on the same cd(and yes I have downloaded other songs from their cd's...I just don't keep them because they suck). What do you suppose the chances of me going to buy a $16 cd with 1 or 2 songs that I like on it? Indeed, not very good. Now when I buy a DVD I watch(and like) the whole thing. To me $16 isn't bad for 2 solid hours of entertainment. But in the case of most cds the entertainment lasts around 15 minutes. Not such a good deal.
DVD: $8/hr
CD: ~$60/hr
Just a thought.
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Sometimes I feel bad about 'stealing' the music, but that feeling usually passes when I actually do buy a cd and find that 3/4 of the songs are terrible. You can't tell me that the 'artists' don't know that most of the music that they are putting out will never want to be heard. They have to know. And if they do know, why don't they release a cd 1/2 as often and have twice as much good music on a cd. Then I would consider it a better deal. Otherwise aren't they sorta stealing from us?
Also, I'm just curious:
Has anyone else ever tried to return a cd because the music on the cd was so terrible? We would do it with any other product, wouldn't we?
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I wanted to be cool when I was 12. I wanted to be accepted. So if my nerdy 23 year old self gave my nerdy 12 year old self advice...I'm not sure I would have listened. You don't become cool by listening to a nerd.
I could see a time when you no longer buy a book, magazine or newspaper, but instead buy(or download) a data cartride which is then inserted into your electronic reading device. The reading device would consist of a couple of pages of this stuff, something to read the data and some sort of navigation system(flip to page XXX, next page,...). You could possibly even integrate the ability to write on this electronic pad so that you could save you comments, highlight and other such things.
You could even have different, convieneint sizes. Novel size, newspaper size, magazine size and possibly texbook size.
That would be pretty cool...
I don't know about all of you but my mp3 collection is pretty diverse. I have a song or 2 from hundreds of different 'artists'. But rarely do I have more than 3 songs from the same 'artist'. And more than likely those 3 songs aren't even on the same cd(and yes I have downloaded other songs from their cd's...I just don't keep them because they suck). What do you suppose the chances of me going to buy a $16 cd with 1 or 2 songs that I like on it? Indeed, not very good. Now when I buy a DVD I watch(and like) the whole thing. To me $16 isn't bad for 2 solid hours of entertainment. But in the case of most cds the entertainment lasts around 15 minutes. Not such a good deal. DVD: $8/hr CD: ~$60/hr Just a thought. --------------- Sometimes I feel bad about 'stealing' the music, but that feeling usually passes when I actually do buy a cd and find that 3/4 of the songs are terrible. You can't tell me that the 'artists' don't know that most of the music that they are putting out will never want to be heard. They have to know. And if they do know, why don't they release a cd 1/2 as often and have twice as much good music on a cd. Then I would consider it a better deal. Otherwise aren't they sorta stealing from us? Also, I'm just curious: Has anyone else ever tried to return a cd because the music on the cd was so terrible? We would do it with any other product, wouldn't we?