Re: Beatles to snub iTunes all together?

On Mar 14, 8:36 pm, "who?" <yourimageunre...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 14, 7:09 pm, steve@[127.0.0.1] (Stephen  X. Carter) wrote:



On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:13:51 +0000, The Home Guard <contac...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Slightly sensationalist reporting, but a quote from Dhani suggests that
they're considering alternatives. The last sentence leaves me wondering
what they're considering charging:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20090314/ten-beatles-consider-alternative-....
   [snip]
He tells Blender magazine, "We're losing money every day. So what do you
do? You have to have your own delivery system, or you have to do a good
deal with Steve Jobs. But he says that a download is worth 99 cents, and
we disagree."

Strange.  

I can't work out from the way that's written if Dhani (speaking on behalf of the group) thinks
that 99c is too much or that it's not enough.

Either way, it would be nice to hear them say that they are boycotting the degraded presentation
that is .mp3 (and equivalents) because it does not do justice the the supreme quality of the
music that The Beatles made, and that they will be releasing remasters on CD and the exact same
tracks as admittedly large downloads online.

Ho Hum.

--
steve.hat.stephencarter.not.com.but.net
Nothing is Beatle Proof!!http://www.zazzle.com/mr_kite*http://www.zazzle.co.uk/mr_kite*

I don't get those who say MP3's sound that bad. Sure they do if you
have a crappy MP3 player. Not much quality lost on my 200 dollar Zune
player,
and the music may sound better than that, if  I paid more?

The idea is, "garbage in, garbage out." It doesn't matter how good a
player you have if the source is a 128 bit mp3, the quality is still
bad;)

TH
.

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