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Friday, November 8, 2002 |
New Audio Formats Come With Price
These DVD-Audio discs, released by Warner Bros. Records, offer a higher sound quality than common music CDs, but also contain a digital watermark that prevents the owner from making perfect copies.
Two new digital audio disc formats touted by the music industry for their stellar sound are nowhere near as consumer-friendly as regular old CDs: They're engineered to be copy-proof. The proposition thrills digital piracy-fearing record executives. But many audiophiles are cool to the virtual padlocks, which could prove the undoing of one or both formats...more [MSNBC]
Ah, the recording industry, they just don't get it! Consumers do not want crippled formats and screwed up non standard technology. Why buy something that takes away convenience? Am I really going to hear the difference? Am I gaining anything by using this technology? If the entertainment industry would just focus on delivering value and a better product they would do just fine. They screamed about TV destroying the movie industry. They screamed how the VCR was going to destroy the movie industry. They screamed how DAT was going to destroy the music industry, so they crippled it, and we didn't buy it. There's a message in all this that they just don't hear, adapt or die, but don't delude yourself into thinking that evolution will stop just for your needs...mj
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