audioholics.com— CD sales are expected to be down 20% in 2008, slightly higher than the 15% drop initially predicted. Why such a drop? Aside from obvious switch to digital media, there are several other factors at play.
Jun 26, 2007View in Crawl 4
Bring back record stores. A record department in a electronics super store is not a record store. I mean a place where a person can go and discover new artist, talk to others about music, and buy music from people who listen to music. It seems people really do not listen to music anymore. Oh... we listen to the most popular artist of the day... but not music. Schools have cut music, art and history out of their curriculums. Simultaneously, Museum attendance is down, Music purchasing is down, Symphonies are going broke. Today many people download the newest pop song listen to it a for few weeks and delete it off their iPod. There does not seem to be any respect for the music. And why should there be. There is no physical CD that a person worked for. They downloaded a virtual song, of a virtual singer. Without something tangible that they themselves worked. People have to be reminded, and educated what good music is. If they seek it out in the stores and buy it the record companies will make more of it. Stop buying crap. Stop illegally downloading crap. Stop buying your music from iTunes, Wal-mart and Best Buy. Go to your locally owned record store. They need the business a lot more than Wal-mart.
CDs = cassettes DVDs = 8-track tapes.PHYSICAL media IS (almost) Obsolete.iTunes sales demonstrate the viability of non-physical sales.<a class="user" href="http://www.redbox.com">http://www.redbox.com</a> $1 DVD rentals demonstrate a useful place forphysical media: vending machine sales. Cheap, Low Labor, Placed anywhere, 'human interface compatible' - physical medias sole use is in easy transfer of large amounts of datawith limited or no receiving equipment.
har0ldJun 27, 2007
CDs still f**king represent 86% of the music market and online music after a couple of years and a big damn hype, is still not a quarter of the total. <a class="user" href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/23/apple-passes-amazon-to-become-the-3-us-music-retailer/">http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/23/apple-passes-amazon-to-become-the-3-us-music-retailer/</a>How's that supposed to be an obsolete situation for CDs? Sometimes I don't get people.I do buy CDs (yeah, almost nothing produced in the 2K) and I don't think CDs will die soon. Or uncompressed PCM 44.1KHz waves, if you wish (flash flash flash).
ibeetleJun 27, 2007
Bring back record stores. A record department in a electronics super store is not a record store. I mean a place where a person can go and discover new artist, talk to others about music, and buy music from people who listen to music. It seems people really do not listen to music anymore. Oh... we listen to the most popular artist of the day... but not music. Schools have cut music, art and history out of their curriculums. Simultaneously, Museum attendance is down, Music purchasing is down, Symphonies are going broke. Today many people download the newest pop song listen to it a for few weeks and delete it off their iPod. There does not seem to be any respect for the music. And why should there be. There is no physical CD that a person worked for. They downloaded a virtual song, of a virtual singer. Without something tangible that they themselves worked. People have to be reminded, and educated what good music is. If they seek it out in the stores and buy it the record companies will make more of it. Stop buying crap. Stop illegally downloading crap. Stop buying your music from iTunes, Wal-mart and Best Buy. Go to your locally owned record store. They need the business a lot more than Wal-mart.
leesoongJun 27, 2007
CDs = cassettes DVDs = 8-track tapes.PHYSICAL media IS (almost) Obsolete.iTunes sales demonstrate the viability of non-physical sales.<a class="user" href="http://www.redbox.com">http://www.redbox.com</a> $1 DVD rentals demonstrate a useful place forphysical media: vending machine sales. Cheap, Low Labor, Placed anywhere, 'human interface compatible' - physical medias sole use is in easy transfer of large amounts of datawith limited or no receiving equipment.
castaspellingbJun 28, 2007
i haven't lost one of my DS games ever and I've had the system for 2 years.