Re: Just how dead are SACD and DVD-A?


"John Phillips" <news0309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2006-01-03, Keith G <keith_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> "John Phillips" <news0309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>> The Holy Grail is a format where the user can never get at a digital
>>> representation of the source. I regret the consumer will suffer more
>>> and more indignities as the music industry tries harder.
>>
>> The real answer lies with the Music and Movie industries - they are too
>> greedy to realise the economic truism that 'cheap sells more and makes
>> more
>> at the end of the day. (Ask Tescos and Walmart....) Make something cheap
>> enough and no-one could be arsed to fake/rip it....
>
> That is exactly my feeling.


The problems all stem from music/movie companies overpaying 'talent' (to
ramp up their own returns), wanting it 'on tick' and conditioning everyone
into thinking they should be paid more than once for their work - ie the
ridiculous notion of 'royalties'...

In the final analysis, there's no such thing as 'intellectual property' - we
owe everything we know to our teachers. Go ask Jim L, I bet he's emptied his
head into more than one person for a *set fee* (or even free on the Net) and
some those persons have gone on to do very nicely on it! (??)

Consider this little example:

"Excuse me, do you know if there is a toilet nearby?"

"Yes, I do - you can have that for free, but it will cost you £1.18 (inc
VAT) if you want me to tell you where it is....."

Get the idea? :-)

Naxos do things differently and effectively cut prices of some excellent CDs
by 60% - their runaway success confirms that, when the chips are down and
the wallet's out, Joe Ordinaire doesn't *have* to have the biggest 'name' in
the industry and the fact that some of the the names that will show up for
Naxos demonstrate that not everyone expects to get paid more than once for a
job of work....

For 'virtual music' to work for everyone's benefit (including the MI)
there's going to have to be a bit more radical thinking than the *wreck the
medium and threaten the marketplace* we're seeing so far from a very greedy
industry that occupies a very comfortable, monopolistic position atm - but
which is melting away faster than the Polar icecaps since the advent of the
Internet and the explosion of incredible recording/reproduction technology
available to every/anyone with a PC and a Broadband connection...


>
>>> ... I suspect MP3 et al will grow but not reach
>>> enough penetration to swamp CD-A in at least the short to medium term.
>>
>> Oh yes it will - no-one's buying the CD players any more and MP3 players
>> are
>> falling out of Corn Flakes boxes nowadays....
>
> I think your point is good for the future of the inexpensive CD-only
> player but not for the multi-standard silver disk spinner, That will
> continue to play CDs as well as the range of DVDs because that's what's
> on the now inexpensive silicon. Thus I still do not see the rise of
> MP3 as imminent curtains for the CD as a format.


Oh I don't think MP3s will *eradicate* CDs (or LPs either, come to that) -
see my earlier remark about the undeniable vast 'CD presence' that already
exists - no-one's going to put that lot in the wheelie, but I do believe
they will *swamp* them, as noted above...




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