In Reply to: It's Over posted by ZooDog on April 18, 2007 at 13:07:46:
Demand for CD/SACD is not enough to sustain giants like Tower Records, but it is sufficient to keep internet sales healthy and production lines running. Listeners of acoustic music and audiophiles solidly prefer old formats. Although music industry tried to lure classic and jazz audiences to downloads, it just didn't work. And it won't work even if the problems of downloading 2 h long 24/96 files are solved. I am sure that due to this lack of enthusiasm, Mac-iTunes will not spend any effort in that direction. On contrary, they will abandon their efforts in classical/jazz altogether and focus solely on the pop.Nowadays CD manufacture does not need a capacity of BMG or Sony. Even if big companies abandon CD/SACD formats, smaller ones will take over.
Edem das seine. For pop, ipods and downloads. For classical/jaz, CD and SACD.
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Follow Ups
- That's an extreme point of view. - sser2 19:16:31 04/18/07 (3)
- Exactly, right on - Feanor 08:01:37 04/19/07 (0)
- Agree 100%... - C.B. 05:45:14 04/19/07 (1)
- Thanks for correction. nt - sser2 09:11:44 04/19/07 (0)