@MikeB

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MikeB wrote: @fairlanefastback I am totally wasted due to konginnedag (must have mis-typed my password 4 times) and still.... Talk to you tomorrow, when I provide you some insight.

I'm sure I don't need to remind you to keep your 'issues' with staff and moderation to PM, and not derail a console thread, do I? (just consider this part a friendly reminder/request, as you should know the TOS enough to not need any..)

I'd also request you leave your issues with both AW and it's staff off of other web sites, lest you may find others responding to you there, as well.

It's amusing how you believe 'insight' seems to only be held by you, though.

Regardless, enjoy your hangover/recovery...had a half week long one after coming back from a vacation recently..

Last edited by wegster on 01-May-2009 at 03:19 AM.

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@MikeB

USA stuff:
Spring 08 -- Forrester Research reports online music sales to overtake CDs by 2012.

Spring 08 -- iTunes claims the spot as the #2 music vendor.

Fall 08 -- Atlantic Records report online sales have overtaken CDs.

Spring 09 -- Virgin closes stores in NY and SF citing the reason as online music sales have overtaken CD sales. Though note I don't believe any research institutes back up the overtake. It is clear however that online sales are serious competition to the bricks and motar.

I find this interesting as many online music is of lower quality than a CD. It appears the collectors are more numerous than the audiophiles. Afterall SACD and DVD-A were basically flops. Which does bring us to Sony's new Blu-CD. This is stupid! It's CD recording quality w/ blue laser. Will the market add money to Sony and not increase audio quality? Time shall tell.

As online sales are proving worthy contenders, I bet 2009 may well strip predictions of online's gains for music. With the down turn in the economy people are more apt tobe more conservative. People will buy the 10 songs they want over the mulitple CDs to get the same 10 songs.

As you stated US sees 6-8Mbps downloads. Many in Europe and Japan are even faster to the home. Certainly in the last year technology has come that will increase the bandwidth to the home even more. As this gets cheaper more people will have enough connectivity to download HD movies in real time. Certainly in the last year technology has improved for digital processing. As this increases we'll see increased use of compression algorithms, especially in the lossless category. The combination will push HD video into more people's homes.

And of course all other media has ended it's lives. Blu-Ray is no different. You're just spreading FUD about our further digital processing and ever growing connectivity.