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Is there a viable physical successor to the CD?


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I dunno, what's out there?
BlueRay DVD videos of live concerts are the real replacement.

This has the advantages of resurrecting the gateway function of the old album that kept amateurs and small and unsuccessful acts out and stops those who can't perform live from gaining much genuine traction.

It may not be what everybody wants to hear, but level playing field and the democratisation of the music business was always a myth!
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Quote Originally Posted by pogo97 View Post
Well, 78s basically only had identification on them, not cover art etc. Odd, when you consider that sheet music had very elaborate art.
well it kind of depends. A lot of 78's (due to play time, etc) were part of albums (which is why we call records that now) sort of like photo albums, so liner notes, art, etc was often part of the bound album instead of the individual disc.
more like a boxed set of today
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Jaron Lanier had a take on it in that book a few years back "you are not a Gadget" - he suggested exploring intergrating memory media with art obects....so maybe you'd (or the small scale production house) would fire up the 3D printer or other fab-box and produce a run of little scuplutres or jewelry or whatever with a memory device on-board -- so the customer would be buying both the music and the object.

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I dunno, what's out there?
BlueRay DVD videos of live concerts are the real replacement.

 

This has the advantages of resurrecting the gateway function of the old album that kept amateurs and small and unsuccessful acts out and stops those who can't perform live from gaining much genuine traction.

 

It may not be what everybody wants to hear, but level playing field and the democratisation of the music business was always a myth!

Too true, I'm afraid. Competition for economic dominance takes many forms and raising the price of admission is one way the current dominant players have of maintaining that dominance.

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