Would you refer this to all interested parties?
Sam Rosenthal of PROJEKT RECORDS in one of my mailings ...As you know, I am 100% in agreement with sharing a few MP3s of bands, to give newcomers an idea of what Projekt music is like. Hearing is believing! Click here http://www.projekt.com/projekt/audio.asp for links to our MP3 Audio pages. and what he says about Napster http://www.projekt.com/projekt/napster01.asp |
I don't understand why DVD's are so cheap after being out for just a few years, but CD's are still relatively expensive. I can buy many movies for $6-8, more popular ones around $10-12. I seldom pay over $15 for a DVD, yet most CD's are minimum $14-16. It shouldn't cost any more to make a DVD than a CD. I don't buy many CD's just because of the cost, although they have come down somewhat. If they lowered the price, they would probably sell many more. Just my humble opinion. |
Muzikat, I agree that the music being produced today sucks but you are totally wrong about it being too expensive. The price of CDs have been coming down lately after sitting on a plateau (absolute dollar-wise) for something like 15 years. If you factor in inflation and how it decreases the effective buying power of the dollar plus the general increase in people's salaries over time, music has been dropping in price for years. The newer LP releases are pricier in absolute dollars compared to the 1980s but inflation of raw materials and very limited production runs require a higher price to offset the higher marginal cost of manufacturing. I don't know if the newer albums are pricier even after correcting for inflation because I haven't attempted any calculations to find out. Now we have numerous venues to shop for used music, be it CD, LPs, and eventually SACD/DVD-A. Sounds like you are not shopping in the right places to me. Mr. Kidknow |
Strange how record companies sponsor and produce really pathetic artists...but they have a formula that sells to the majority of people who are out there. These people are most likely not people like Audiogoners. I have not bought an American made/produced CD in the past year and half...wait, I did, an old Horowitz triple CD/DVD set, that is about it. I REFUSE to sponsor mediocre companies that are formulaic and if they use a technology that is flawled and allows people to clone these material easily. So be it. I am sure there are tons of undiscovered artists readily available in old vinyl or if you are looking for better artist, check overseas labels. Let all of these pathetic music industry bastard rot....no matter what format they figure out to impede cloning, someone will do it. PS: Great music will always be available with or without these labels, who would not have sponsored its nurturing anyway. Formats are bound to change, the music that YOU want will not, it will be just in a different format. |
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We're not going to return to analog. ProTools. Too many people helping to make music are too used to digitally record and mix the music. Most will not want to return to razor blades and analog methods. Digital it just oo convenient for both music makers, equipment makers, and end users. The digital 'genie' is out of the lamp for everyone involved. There will be no mass return to analog. And besides, people will still rip the analog music through the line inputs on their sound cards. Sure that sucks, but so does compressed music. Indie labels love CDs (and vinyl). I don't think they will rush to adopt ALD. There is no commercial incentive. The only incentive is analog makes it difficult for average users to rip music. That's it. It won't stop actual pirates, organized crime, et al. So I don't a point for this forklift upgrade. http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.pl?forum=digital&n=77727& |
I read your posting with interest and offer these comments: --You idea would require all end users to buy new hardware and all recorders to buy recording technology. 1.The battle between DVD-A and SACD demonstates the antedotal adage about the increase in technology having to be 10 times as good to catch on. Consumers of the hardware have no interest in the producers' copyrights,so you would have to give them the hardware-like a battery company giving away flashlights or a film company giving away film. 2.The laser analog technology to make the recordings could be copied by pirates who could still produce and distribute pirated copies;I must disagree with your assertion that your idea would eliminate piracy. Even if you payed the legal and lobbying fees to get all the treaties and international copyrights,anyone reading the copyright filings would have the wherewithall to copy the technology to make pirated copies. Most governments would balk at this because it would deprive them of sales tax revenues. 3. The problem of artists having to recover a high cost of production to get their work in the marketplace would remain.3a. The problem of producers having to use popular products to subsidize marginal products would remain. --retailers. A retailer selling music or a movie must price into the product the wholesale step and the capitals,labors,and materials of the location to sell them. He/she must factor in the possibity of ordering too few or too many copies and of returns and defective products. I have not run the numbers and I've been wrong before but this seems reasonable to me: --Use the existing technologies to solve piracy,avoiding deplyment of capitals. --Make the cost of making your own copy of digital software low enough so the incentive for piracy is removed. I chose a download from a digital jukebox,pay a production royalty that is reasonable, bill it to my credit card, and burn the software using my Nero 44.1 burner.The government is happy because they can access the escrow accounts,move the decimal point(sorry) one place,and withhold the taxes due. The capitals that would otherwise have to go to wholesaling and retail steps and the law enforcement monies could be deployed for more productive uses. I agree that artist and even producers deserve compensation but believe there are simpler ways to do it than the ways you describe. Yes,there are some drawbacks to the 44.1 technology above about 22 thousand cycles,but the no upsample technologies show promise,at a cost that does not require everybody to buy new software and hardware. Thanks. |
