Posted on 08/16/2007 3:06:06 PM PDT by abt87
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I realized today I was 10 when Elvis died...feeling super old right about now.
BTW I remember my MOM coming in crying that day... and I have very few child hood memories....
I buy singles on iTunes, but I’ll keep buying any full albums that I want on CD, as long as digital music has these inferior “features”:
1. DRM restrictions
2. Reduced fidelity; lost audio information compared to CDs.
3. Just a low-res digital cover graphic and not the entire front cover, back cover, inlays, and booklet that comes with the CD.
Also, single tracks on iTunes (or any other legal service) should cost no more than 50 cents.
YOU feel old?.......I was in college, right out of the USMC!.......
I was 7. I experienced the same thing watching my mom sob.
I dont really have any fond memories of Elvis. All I remember was every flipping weeking mom would find some Elvis movie on and that would be what’s on TV. Personally, I would have rathered had her beat us.
And twenty years later, consumers have discovered downloading, and I realize that they don’t need to re-buy the same music over and over again.
Sing with me, “Heaven nose, that’s not the way I..”
And, “Burnin, burnin, disco inferno!”
Yes, I’ve been awake for over 24 hours.
I second that! And they should also allow for people to download music in lossless formats such as FLAC or Apple’s own proprietary Apple Lossless Codec. BTW, in an age of EULA’s and DRM, you can’t even resell digital downloads like you can with CD’s. The RIAA hates the First Sale Doctrine, and by slapping DRM and EULA’s on digital downloads, they will have effectively eliminated it.
the ipod offers better convenience, not technology. dvd audio is superior but most people won’t appreciate the quality if they have no problem with ipods.
That is hilarious. I loved Akbar and Jeff. Whatever happened to their artist? I hope he found some way to make some money on his sketches. < /sarcasm level D’oh!>
Ah, just the thread I’ve been looking for. Maybe someone will give me some help. Freepers know everything.
I just got two new computers. Both of them have one device, called a “DVD Drive”.
Now I installed some new programd using this drive...the usual way. I put the installation disk in the drive and the program installed.
So why is it called a “DVD drive”? I think of DVD’s as things that have movies on them. The front of the thing does say it’s a “multi-use” sort of thing.
I also have a camera/movie recorder and I want to apply for a TV show that will have me winning millions. The rules say that the film that I must make of myself should be “DVD formats”.
So....can I copy the AVI file from my C drive onto this “DVD drive”? Can I use regular CD-RW or CD-R disks in this thing? Does the fact that it’s called a DVD drive thus make my copy of the AVI file on it a “DVD format”?
I appreciate any help anyone can give me. I will share some of my millions with you if I get some good answers.
I am new to this but chugging along as I learn.
Heh.
I was 15 and touring Europe with my family. I saw the headline while in Rome and after reading that he was 42, I remarked, “Dang, he was old.”
DVD Audio also has DRM on it. One of the reason why it (and Super Audio CD) never took off was because of DRM. Personally, I think that the RIAA only hurt themselves more when they started installing DRM on regular CD’s. Each DRM method they tried was cracked right after release, and their efforts ended in disaster two years ago, when Sony sold DRM-laden CD’s that installed spyware on people’s computers. Since then, the major labels have abandoned putting DRM on CD’s.
I hear ya. What was unfortunate for me is my mom died sudden at age 44 and now I am 40 and I have spent the last 18 years saying...damn..she was so young.
I don’t think that is why those formats didn’t take off. Most people are simply not audiophiles who listen to very fine music in an expensive home theater system. They may want better graphics or tv resolution but they aren’t so interested in higher audio quality.
I am 37 and I am feeling really bad right now.
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