Re: [ARSCLIST] CD versus Download was "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[Mwcpc6@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/25/2006 8:34:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

I hate to say this, but I think 5" commercially-produced discs (audio and 
video) have a ticking 
clock. Maybe 10 years, plus/minus a few years. I really do hate to say this, 
by the way, because I 
still prefer listening attentively in a chair over big speakers with a CD in 
the player (or a really 
good LP or tape). And I prefer to watch movies on a big video screen with 5 
channels of sound from a 
DVD. Judging from where download-only quality has been thusfar, I am not 
confident the future 
releases will be high resolution enough to afford my enjoyments.
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Some parts of the world already have ten times the Internet bandwidth than is 
commonly available in the US. It won't be ten years before higher quality 
will be a low cost added value for marketing downloads. 

Of course cell phone screens and ear buds put a limit on the usefulness of 
quality improvements for some markets, but there will still be a home 
entertainment market.

Mike Csontos