willyhoops;281409 Wrote:
At last the days of CD scanning are all over. It will be a great day for
consumers...
Can't see it myself. Certainly won't be a good day for me and I'm a
consumer. If I lost the device seems like I'd have to pay for the music
all over again. Its like having a CD
Apple won't be the only ones. After all, it's exactly what Rhapsody are
doing today. Although I have a large-ish CD collection, and have a
slightly fetishistic view of them, I do think that full catalog
subscription is the way of the future. Although, as others have said
before me, some people
Looks like there will be two markets; firstly for pop/rock, they'll be a
'all you can eat' but with the real earnings coming from merchandising
etc. For classical, the downloads will move to hi-rez (24/96) and
retain the per-download pricing.
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amcluesent
smc2911;281688 Wrote:
(In the sense that the older generation, like me, may not embrace it,
but the younger generations will think it's normal and will be unable
to understand our obsession with the physical artefact).
My take on it is that when record companies killed off singles to try
to
Tis true. People like us with SB3s and Transporters who care about good
sound quality are in the minority, I guess
And (leaving aside debates like sound quality, DRM etc) it's much
easier/quicker to click Buy in iTunes than it is to rip a CD. IMHO,
YMMV etc.
And one day I'll be the same; if
www.ft.com, March 19 2008
Apple in talks with music companies
Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about a radical
new business model that would give customers free access to its entire
iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and
iPhone
Of course it will have DRM - you can't let someone downlaod all the
music and then give thier friends a copy!
The french ruling that consumers should be able to covert purchased
music between formats is not going to apply to this. Indded, it's of
course one of the reasons for the move.
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willyhoops;281409 Wrote:
It will be a great day for consumers but the impact on Apple is pretty
amazing as well
Not sure if that part is tongue in cheek - but there's an alternative
view here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/apple_itunes_unlimited/
I haven't seen any report which
willyhoops;281409 Wrote:
At last the days of CD scanning are all over. It will be a great day for
consumers but the impact on Apple is pretty amazing as well.
I for one will be sad when CDs dissapear if they ever do, I don't want
to be limited to some crappy lossy mp3 file download service
willyhoops;281409 Wrote:
At last the days of CD scanning are all over. It will be a great day for
consumers but the impact on Apple is pretty amazing as well:
As well as killing off amazon.com music sales and making sure they
control content as well as hardware, apple can extract the best
willyhoops;281409 Wrote:
At last the days of CD scanning are all over. It will be a great day for
consumers ...
How would it be good for consumers?
Why on earth would I buy music I can't listen to?
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snarlydwarf
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