Physical Media must be finished surely?
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So you're an audiophile who sees the value in the higher quality offered by CDs.
Many are the same with visual content and thus buy Blurays.
yeah i understand that - i guess the superior quality of physical BR is not a big deal for me but for music it is - i do agree that physical media will be better quality.
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what is the difference between a cd and a high quality legit music source these days though?
i have quite an expensive setup in my car. top of the range pioneer head unit. £599 alpine amp. DSP Carver sound system (4 subs, 4 mids, 2 tweeters). This is all in a 2 seater car so 10 speakers is a lot to pack in. I cannot tell the difference between my cd's and stuff streamed from my phone bought from google play store. especially with the modern advancements in bluetooth APT-X and the likes.
I also have DAB radio and I was amazed at the difference in quality between that and normal radio. I no longer listen to normal radio now. DAB even has bass which normal radio seems to not transmit.
i have quite an expensive setup in my car. top of the range pioneer head unit. £599 alpine amp. DSP Carver sound system (4 subs, 4 mids, 2 tweeters). This is all in a 2 seater car so 10 speakers is a lot to pack in. I cannot tell the difference between my cd's and stuff streamed from my phone bought from google play store. especially with the modern advancements in bluetooth APT-X and the likes.
I also have DAB radio and I was amazed at the difference in quality between that and normal radio. I no longer listen to normal radio now. DAB even has bass which normal radio seems to not transmit.
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Some great points made so far but my biggest bugbear to date, other than the inferior quality, is not having access to all of the media I want from a single service.
With physical media you buy or rent what you want, with digital media you'll rarely find one place that has everything so you need to sign up to multiple services.
I can only see that getting worse in the coming years as distributors realise they don't need to rely on the likes of Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and the like and further fragment the market with their own paid for services.
I also believe the digital only utopia people dream of will be massively more expensive than it is now because we won't have an alternative to fall back to
With physical media you buy or rent what you want, with digital media you'll rarely find one place that has everything so you need to sign up to multiple services.
I can only see that getting worse in the coming years as distributors realise they don't need to rely on the likes of Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix and the like and further fragment the market with their own paid for services.
I also believe the digital only utopia people dream of will be massively more expensive than it is now because we won't have an alternative to fall back to
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Given the studios keep trying to change the terms when you buy a film online I still prefer to buy physical media as its concrete proof I paid for the film / TV show and so have the right to view it when I like and as often as I like. First thing I usually do is rip to my NAS box and watch from there - too many times the combination of small children and sticky fingers has trashed something - fortunately only kids stuff they grow out of and hasn't been replaced.
IF there were an equivalent to what we have in Steam for gaming that I would trust as much as steam, I would re-consider.
Also, physical media is very often the same price or even cheaper than a downloaded version if you are prepared to wait a bit after the DVD/Blu-Ray launch.
IF there were an equivalent to what we have in Steam for gaming that I would trust as much as steam, I would re-consider.
Also, physical media is very often the same price or even cheaper than a downloaded version if you are prepared to wait a bit after the DVD/Blu-Ray launch.
Completely agree
It drives me bonkers when a streaming service advertise a cd that you want to listen to and then find that certain tracks are missing from it.
This happens all too frequently these days (admittedly more with music that I grew up with in the 80's /90's especially greatest hits / compilation albums where soundtrack hits are released by different publishers etc)
The other thing that bugs me is when the service has something for 3 months and then it disappears for good - I can apprecate Sky doing this for a brand new tv show during 1st airing of the series for instance, but a cd /album thats for instance 30 years old shouldnt really be subject to the same limitations - if the license is held, keep it available.