I'm not saying that CD's have less value to me. I'm just giving examples of how people can percieve it to be that way. I've listened to my favorite CD's probably close to 1000 times. I've wathed my favorite movies probably less than 20. So to me a CD has much more value than a DVD.
I think a big reason that DVD's are precieved as cheaper has to do with movie ticket prices. If it costs me $10 a ticket to go to a movie, but I can buy a DVD for $20 and 5 of us watch it, it seems like a great deal.
Not all rolling stone content is available online. But what they do will is differentiate. I might be able to get the same information, but the expierence of the magazine is better. It has more pictures, more articles, more features. I really think that if the music companies wanted to do away with piracy they should just release all their music as low bit rate mp3's. FM quality or so. then you have a good reason to buy the CD, better quality.
I agree totally. Not to mention that CD's often come with bonus material. I enjoy the cover art. My 500 CD collection is often a topic of conversation when guests come over. I am able to archive my collection in the format of my choice (FLAC). I can play my songs on any device I own (apart from my turntable). And most of all shopping at the CD store is an enjoyable experience for me.
Bigger labels pay an advance upfront, pay recording costs, marketing costs, etc; and then start cutting you checks once they recoup those costs (plust intrest?). That's the major label buisness plan. And because of this they loose A LOT of money on dud albums. I believe the new smashmouth CD sold something like 70,000 copies. After two very successfull albums, care to wager how much their label invested in that?
30 seconds is not nearly enough to know if I like something. What if it's a 8 minute song by the cure that has a 3:30 intro? what part do they play? the chorus, the intro, a verse? It is possible for me to hate the chorus but think the intro kicks ass. So I might still end up buying something I hate. An even better example is a skinny puppy live CD i have where the entire disc is one track. which 30 seconds do you choose? How is that really going to let me know if I like the album?
I beg to differ. None of my friends (and trust me we are the people who buy most music) probably buy 1-2 cd's a week. None of us have ever purchased anything from an online music store. Why not? Well it's not signifigantly cheaper and we find that what we are buying has less value to us. If CD's became cheaper I'd buy more CD's it's a simple as that. The list of discs I want to buy is massive and I'm never going to fill it.
I would wager that their are more stores that sell DVD's than sell CD's. I mean the 7-11 by my house has DVD's for sale. DVD's are percieved to be cheaper for what you get: 2 hours of video, commentaries, etc. For instance go to amazon.com and look up the martix soundtrack and the movie on DVD. They are the same price. Which one has more value?
I have to agree. It seemed a little weird a first, but now I can easily get to any of my messages without searching, everything stays organized, and I didn't have to set up any filters. It's amazing.
If you have a nomad. try notmad explorer from red chair software. I use it for transfering files to my nomad IIc and it works like a champ. Of course I'm not big on jukebox software... i organize my mp3's using the file system.
If your serious about taking your tunes with you, want a very good firewire/usb drive, and have it all in a stylish and easy to use package there is only one choice.
Except for the other choices: Rio Karma, Nomad Zen MX, iRiver iHP-120, etc.
what does radiohead have to do with emo? Not that this current crop of emo-pop has anything to do with the real emo stuff in the mid 80's, but radiohead isn't anything like either.
My guess would be that germany and especially italy are more frequently under those kinds of temperatures. Therefore more of their population had A/C and even more importantly their power grid was designed to handle that many people using A/C. Think of it this way. If it got to a 100 degrees in portland for a week straight all hell would break loose. But when I was growing up in Oklahoma it was 100 degrees every day for an entire period of June to August. The difference is that in Oklahoma that kind of weather isn't out of the ordinary so they prepare for it.
You didn't understand my point. I said if we were to have similar conditions (i.e. 100+ for many consecutive days) the out come would have been similar. Right now that is unheard of here, 90+ days are rare and because of that not many people have A/C. But the problem was, that kind of weather was also unheard of in france. It was freaky there, and if something similar to that were to happen here people would suffer similar problems. Just like in france though it would be elderly people who rarely leave the house who would bear the brunt.
If a heat wave similar to what happened in france where to happen in seattle, I guarantee you would see a similar death rate here. When it doesn't get very hot somewhere people tend not to install air conditioning. It sometimes will hit 90 degrees here and that makes things very uncomfortable. If we had weeks of 100+ degree heat people would drop like flies.
I love DDR. Of course I don't play it in the arcade. I play it at home. Nothing beats alcohol, friends, two dancepads, and my ps2. And the best part is, chicks dig it.
I haven't listened to them since i was young and full of teen angst. I just found out though that sascha lives here in seattle, on queen anne hill. I bet his neighbors get a kick out of him.
Actually I keep them on hard drives. I've got the space and storage is cheap now. I should back them up to CD-RW (which seems to last ok if it isn't used much), but I'm holding off for a larger back up media. I also haven't finished converting all my CD's to FLAC yet. I've got about 500 so it's going to take some time.
CD players aren't going away, ever, in my lifetime. I can still by a new turntable or LD player if I wanted and those two formats are much older and 'deader' than CD. Plus the industry has standardized on the CD sized optical disk so every new player is going to support red book CD from now to eternity.
I don't need new software for FLAC, I have the software I need. If people stop writing software, I'll just keep using what I have.
News flash... Apple's DRM is the same as all the other music stores. The only difference is the DRM on songs that apple either doesn't offer or on services that they don't offer. Certain labels would only allow certain songs with harsher DRM. Apple won't carry them, some of the other stores will. Apple does not support unlimited streaming music, the other stores do. Those are the only differences between the stores. If you go find a song at iTMS and the same song at MusicMatch or Napster 2.0 the DRM will be identical.
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I'm not saying that CD's have less value to me. I'm just giving examples of how people can percieve it to be that way. I've listened to my favorite CD's probably close to 1000 times. I've wathed my favorite movies probably less than 20. So to me a CD has much more value than a DVD.
I think a big reason that DVD's are precieved as cheaper has to do with movie ticket prices. If it costs me $10 a ticket to go to a movie, but I can buy a DVD for $20 and 5 of us watch it, it seems like a great deal.
Not all rolling stone content is available online. But what they do will is differentiate. I might be able to get the same information, but the expierence of the magazine is better. It has more pictures, more articles, more features. I really think that if the music companies wanted to do away with piracy they should just release all their music as low bit rate mp3's. FM quality or so. then you have a good reason to buy the CD, better quality.
I agree totally. Not to mention that CD's often come with bonus material. I enjoy the cover art. My 500 CD collection is often a topic of conversation when guests come over. I am able to archive my collection in the format of my choice (FLAC). I can play my songs on any device I own (apart from my turntable). And most of all shopping at the CD store is an enjoyable experience for me.
Bigger labels pay an advance upfront, pay recording costs, marketing costs, etc; and then start cutting you checks once they recoup those costs (plust intrest?). That's the major label buisness plan. And because of this they loose A LOT of money on dud albums. I believe the new smashmouth CD sold something like 70,000 copies. After two very successfull albums, care to wager how much their label invested in that?
30 seconds is not nearly enough to know if I like something. What if it's a 8 minute song by the cure that has a 3:30 intro? what part do they play? the chorus, the intro, a verse? It is possible for me to hate the chorus but think the intro kicks ass. So I might still end up buying something I hate. An even better example is a skinny puppy live CD i have where the entire disc is one track. which 30 seconds do you choose? How is that really going to let me know if I like the album?
I beg to differ. None of my friends (and trust me we are the people who buy most music) probably buy 1-2 cd's a week. None of us have ever purchased anything from an online music store. Why not? Well it's not signifigantly cheaper and we find that what we are buying has less value to us. If CD's became cheaper I'd buy more CD's it's a simple as that. The list of discs I want to buy is massive and I'm never going to fill it.
I would wager that their are more stores that sell DVD's than sell CD's. I mean the 7-11 by my house has DVD's for sale. DVD's are percieved to be cheaper for what you get: 2 hours of video, commentaries, etc. For instance go to amazon.com and look up the martix soundtrack and the movie on DVD. They are the same price. Which one has more value?
Other things they can put on the CD include: Videos, bonus discs, DVD's, links to online content.
I have to agree. It seemed a little weird a first, but now I can easily get to any of my messages without searching, everything stays organized, and I didn't have to set up any filters. It's amazing.
If you have a nomad. try notmad explorer from red chair software. I use it for transfering files to my nomad IIc and it works like a champ. Of course I'm not big on jukebox software... i organize my mp3's using the file system.
If your serious about taking your tunes with you, want a very good firewire/usb drive, and have it all in a stylish and easy to use package there is only one choice.
Except for the other choices: Rio Karma, Nomad Zen MX, iRiver iHP-120, etc.
of course they can refuse to ship you the product to sell if you don't sell it for what they want.
what does radiohead have to do with emo? Not that this current crop of emo-pop has anything to do with the real emo stuff in the mid 80's, but radiohead isn't anything like either.
My guess would be that germany and especially italy are more frequently under those kinds of temperatures. Therefore more of their population had A/C and even more importantly their power grid was designed to handle that many people using A/C. Think of it this way. If it got to a 100 degrees in portland for a week straight all hell would break loose. But when I was growing up in Oklahoma it was 100 degrees every day for an entire period of June to August. The difference is that in Oklahoma that kind of weather isn't out of the ordinary so they prepare for it.
how many people live in Portland? How many people live in France? Extrapolate. I'll even do it for you. 243,537 people live in greater Portland. France has about 60 million residents. In france 14,000 died which would be the equivalent of 56 people dying in Portland. So, equivalent things do happen here. We're just spared greater numbers because of our low population density and the fact that weather is a fairly localized phenomenon. But in 1988 between 5,000 and 10,000 people died in the US due to a heat wave.
You didn't understand my point. I said if we were to have similar conditions (i.e. 100+ for many consecutive days) the out come would have been similar. Right now that is unheard of here, 90+ days are rare and because of that not many people have A/C. But the problem was, that kind of weather was also unheard of in france. It was freaky there, and if something similar to that were to happen here people would suffer similar problems. Just like in france though it would be elderly people who rarely leave the house who would bear the brunt.
If a heat wave similar to what happened in france where to happen in seattle, I guarantee you would see a similar death rate here. When it doesn't get very hot somewhere people tend not to install air conditioning. It sometimes will hit 90 degrees here and that makes things very uncomfortable. If we had weeks of 100+ degree heat people would drop like flies.
I love DDR. Of course I don't play it in the arcade. I play it at home. Nothing beats alcohol, friends, two dancepads, and my ps2. And the best part is, chicks dig it.
They didn't publish his address, they just said he owns a house on queene anne... it was in the seattle weekly about a month ago.
I don't get it... is it fish or is it chicken?
I haven't listened to them since i was young and full of teen angst. I just found out though that sascha lives here in seattle, on queen anne hill. I bet his neighbors get a kick out of him.
Actually I keep them on hard drives. I've got the space and storage is cheap now. I should back them up to CD-RW (which seems to last ok if it isn't used much), but I'm holding off for a larger back up media. I also haven't finished converting all my CD's to FLAC yet. I've got about 500 so it's going to take some time.
CD players aren't going away, ever, in my lifetime. I can still by a new turntable or LD player if I wanted and those two formats are much older and 'deader' than CD. Plus the industry has standardized on the CD sized optical disk so every new player is going to support red book CD from now to eternity.
I don't need new software for FLAC, I have the software I need. If people stop writing software, I'll just keep using what I have.
Name one... I really doubt it.
News flash... Apple's DRM is the same as all the other music stores. The only difference is the DRM on songs that apple either doesn't offer or on services that they don't offer. Certain labels would only allow certain songs with harsher DRM. Apple won't carry them, some of the other stores will. Apple does not support unlimited streaming music, the other stores do. Those are the only differences between the stores. If you go find a song at iTMS and the same song at MusicMatch or Napster 2.0 the DRM will be identical.