Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We who live in large cities and have been computer savvy and internet savvy are like the executives at
the CBC who know only the pickle jar they live in, sorry. There are millions of people out there who
still buy their music at WalMart and will buy it on CD as long as they can and who would still have been
buying it on cassettes if the companies hadn't stopped producing them. And these people wouldn't know
digital quality if it bit them on the astroturf.

dl

Tom Fine wrote:

> Hi Steven:
>
> There's a whole generation that's more than comfortable with storing all information on hard drives.
> Talk to anyone about 25 or younger.
>
> I hate to say this, but I think 5" commercially-produced discs (audio and video) have a ticking
> clock. Maybe 10 years, plus/minus a few years. I really do hate to say this, by the way, because I
> still prefer listening attentively in a chair over big speakers with a CD in the player (or a really
> good LP or tape). And I prefer to watch movies on a big video screen with 5 channels of sound from a
> DVD. Judging from where download-only quality has been thusfar, I am not confident the future
> releases will be high resolution enough to afford my enjoyments.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "steven c" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karl Miller" <lyaa071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >>
> >> > There is a big difference between the mass market and the music market.
> >> >
> >> > Even as a teenager I appreciated the notes on the classical LPs I
> > borrowed
> >> > from the library and even researched composers and orchestras.
> >> >
> >> > However also as a teenager I taped the "Top 40" off the air and played
> > the
> >> > songs in the order they accumulated on the reel of my home tape
> > recorder,
> >> > without any interest in the context.
> >>
> >> Which reminds me of a discussion I had over lunch on Saturday...
> >>
> >> I wonder if the classical market is less suited to the download. No doubt,
> >> economics will be, to a large part, the determining factor...but I
> >> consider how classical discs have, from time to time, cost more. Plus I
> >> look to the popularity of labels like Brilliant where collections of the
> >> "complete" are popular...especially at what they charge.
> >>
> >> I also think about the nature of classical music with its wide dynamic
> >> range and the complexity of sound.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts out there as to whether there might be a potential for the CD
> >> staying with us a bit longer for classical music versus popular music?
> >>
> > The CD...or, more likely, the DVD...is fairly sure to remain...at least
> > until we are totally used to, and comfortable with, the concept of
> > storing ALL our information on the hard drive(s) (or whatever may
> > replace them) of our home computers. We humans seem to feel more
> > comfortable when an entity can be saved as a single tangible object
> > (or set of same)...when digital cameras became readily available,
> > the next posession had to be a photo-capable colour printer, even
> > though the images could be saved in digital form and viewed as/when
> > the person saw fit.
> >
> > Besides, I hope to last another twenty years or so...which means that
> > shellac 78rpm analog discs will be around at least that long...!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr