i'm sure that this has been brought up before, but it's hard to search for...
i sometimes wonder what is going to come next, if anything after cd's/ mp3's. do you think that after awhile everything is going to be digital? mp3's taking over cd's? what's going to come after that? i personally think that if the music industry goes this way they are screwing themselves. after all, cover art/the experience of having something in my hands is a huge part of why i buy an album nowadays.
i actually think that if they were to release a new format in replace of cd's (somehow better) sales would go up like crazy. not to mention that not everyone has a computer, or the time to download every album they want.
― vinnie bobereeno (vinnie bobereeno), Saturday, 31 July 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)
I would have thought that downloads will be kept relatively lo-fidelity - 128kbps .aac or equivilent - in favour of these new 'Blu Ray' discs that hold up to 50GBs of data (TDK have already demonstrated 100GB four layer recording). Record companies will be able to sell you re-masterd back catalogue albums - again - with bonus archive full screen HD video, surround sound mixes, and it'll play in your CD player, your DVD player and your BD-ROM player, plus it'll have DRM in Windows.
Companies behind Blu Ray include:
Dell, Hitachi, Hewlett Packard, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Mitsubishi Electric, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, Sony, Thomson, TDK
BD-ROM pre-recorded media are to be available by late 2005.
Confusingly, Blu Ray has a competitor, the Advanced Optical Disc - developed by Toshiba and NEC - which is technically weaker that BD-ROM, holding only 15GBs of date per disc - but which has been chosen by the DVD Forum to be the HDTV successor of the DVD format.
I give it three years before sales figures for both the CD - singles and albums - and DVD markets are dead. Four to six years and it'll be impossible to find a CD or DVD player to buy in the stores.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 31 July 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)